[Cython] Out of order side effects of argument evaluation in function calls (ticket #654)

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Jason Grout
<jason-sage at creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 3/16/11 11:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Stefan Behnel<stefan_ml at behnel.de>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm actually leaning towards not guaranteeing the order of execution if C
>>> doesn't do it either. If this is really required, it's easy to work
>>> around
>>> for users, but it's severely hard to fix for Cython in all cases, and the
>>> gain is truly small. After all, we'd only make it easier for users to
>>> write
>>> bad code.
>>
>> Yep. Lets keep the code in for the above case.
>
>
> Is there a huge big warning in the docs?  Maybe on this page would be a good
> place: http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/limitations.html

This doesn't affect Python functions at all, so I'm not sure it
belongs on that page. I agree that it should be mentioned that c(p)def
functions have C calling semantics, *including* an unspecified order
or argument evaluation.

- Robert