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On 5/6/2014 6:41 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
You don't think it would be reasonable to say something to the effect that the order in which non-deterministic expressions are evaluated is non-deterministic (ie implementation-defined)? Certainly it would be reasonable enough in the case of a random number generator. Although I suppose if you are going to seed it, you would like the seed to effect the random numbers that are generated.My policy on side effects is: all expressions containing side effects are going to be evaluated in orderI do something like that in Saxon as well. But I don't attempt to define what "in order" means; for example, the order in which different global variables are evaluated. Doing this in the spec would be much more problematic. -Mike
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