stdio line-streaming revisited

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> As long as it's not in the language definition, you can't count on it. 
>> I think this is a language defect anyhow; I am lobbying Walter to 
>> define left-to-right order of evaluation in all cases.
> 
> It's problematical to define the order of function argument evaluation, 
> because some calling conventions push left-to-right, others right-to-left.
> 
> Not impossible, though.

It sounds like parameter evaluation order is being confused with 
evaluation order in expressions?  Or is Andrei truly suggesting that 
function arguments should be evaluated left to right?


Sean