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Operand Evaluation Order

• The process:
  1. Variables: just fetch the value
  
  2. Constants: sometimes a fetch from memory; sometimes the constant is in the machine language instruction
  3. Parenthesized expressions: evaluate all operands and operators first
  4. Function references: The case of most interest!

• Order of evaluation is crucial