The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

The Excel IMARGUMENT function is an engineering function, and its purpose is to return the argument theta, an angle expressed in radians. The formula for the IMARGUMENT function is IMARGUMENT (inumber ...

If you know lots of programming languages, then you're already accustomed to the ability to declare and use functions with a variable number of arguments, where the number and type of arguments aren't ...

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