Field assignments are reordered in record creations

[David Hopwood]

orbitz@REDACTED wrote:
> I don't believe what is happen is what you think is happening.  The 
> issue is that the order of execution in a single sequence point is  not
> defined.  Your code does no say anything about which record  fields gets
> assigned first, simply which function gets executed  first.  You cannot
> depend on the order of execution of an expression  to reflect how you
> wrote it.  Compilers are generally free to execute  expressions in
> whatever order is easiest for them.

Erlang is not C; it has no concept of sequence points. However, you're
correct that the evaluation order of arguments to an operator or function
call is undefined. See section 6.3 of
<http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/cerl/doc/core_erlang-1.0.3.pdf>.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED>