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Posted Apr 19, 2012 22:12 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Not Again by tjc
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

The most important things to understand about sequence points being that they are not points and do not generally define a sequence. :-)


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Posted Apr 21, 2012 15:50 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

What would you call them then?

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Posted Apr 21, 2012 16:23 UTC (Sat) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

I would refer to a partial ordering of operations. Anyway, this was fixed in the latest standard (though unfortunately multithreading and atomic operations make this a lot more complex).

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