Terry Reedy tjreedy at home.com
Tue Jul 31 13:04:20 EDT 2001

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"Bengt Richter" <bokr at accessone.com> wrote in message
news:3b666579.880046189 at wa.news.verio.net...
> BTW, I couldn't find where it officially says a sequence
expression's elements
> are evaluated guaranteed left to right. E.g., if I write
>     [foo(), bar(), baz()]
> can I depend on global side effects of foo() to be available to
bar(), and of bar()
> to baz() in strict sequence? The sequences are at the top of the
precedence table,
> but what of the elements? Just want to make sure ;-)

I remember reading that function arguments are (guaranteed) evaluated
l to r.  I believe dict entries are also, so {'n':1, 'n':2} ==
{'n':2}.  I presume list items are also.  This should be in ref manual
if not already.

Terry J. Reedy

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