[MLton-user] Re: [polyml] Order of evaluation of arguments to a function

[Ramana Kumar]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 18/08/11 15:06, Ivan Tomac wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me like SML/NJ, MLton and PolyML evaluate all function
>> arguments left to right, OCaml evaluates them right to left, and
>> Moscow ML seems inconsistent.
>
> I'd say that it seems like, given an expression (f x y), SML/NJ, MLton and
> PolyML evalute x, then (f x), then ((f x) y), while Moscow ML evaluates x,
> then y, then (f x y) (essentially uncurrying the function first).  If OCaml
> prints 2 then 1 in the second example you gave, that seems like strange
> behaviour (evaluating y then x then (f x y)).

what about evaluating f?

>
> Alex
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> Alexander Merry
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> Department of Computer Science
> University of Oxford
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