Side Effects

[Peter J. Holsberg]

The other day I posted about operator assignments and side effects, and
today received the following response that I would like your *posted*
comments on.

> When in doubt, use "long-hand" and let the compiler optimize.  If you have
> existing code which you are trying to decypher, you should write a test
> program for your particular compiler because while there is a "correct"
> order of evaluation, it is not necessarily adheared to.

Thanks,
Pete
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