I just ported some code to OCaml and it was giving weird results. Not wrong just backwards. A quick inspection leads me to believe that (impure) code like Foo(x, y, z) -> Foo(r x, r y, r z) is being evaluated backwards, i.e. r z first. Is there a switch or flag to control this? Or a preprocessor to…

Evaluation order

lukstafi May 29, 2023, 6:12pm 5

I would swear it is right-to-left in bytecode only, and left-to-right in native code? Let’s google… Why are OCaml function arguments evaluated right-to-left?

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