Does the Julia language guarantee evaluation order where parentheses are used to isolate subexpressions? For example, if one writes d = a + (b - c) can we be sure that the subtraction is performed first? This is important in implementing algorithms where one attempts to control roundoff. I didn…

Integrity of parentheses?

Ralph_Smith November 23, 2018, 7:17pm 6

Harbison and Steele explicitly say that a C compiler may reorder evaluation of such expressions, and the references I could find online do not disagree.

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Integrity of parentheses?

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