List Order of Initialization

[Ben Finney]

SamFeltus <samfeltus at gmail.com> writes:

> When a list initializes, will it always evaluate in order starting at
> element 0 and finishing with the last element?
> 
> def f1(x):
>     return x + 2
> 
> def f2(x):
>     return x * 2
> 
> def f3(x):
>     return x * 3
> 
> the_list = [f1(7), f2(8), f3(4)]

The new list won't even *exist* until all the arguments to the
constructor are evaluated; its initialiser will receive values, not
expressions. So, you're not asking about the behaviour of a list
initialising; you're asking about the order of evaluating an
expression.

In the above expression, yes, the several items in the literal list
expression will be evaluated left to right.

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Ben Finney