alt Hacker NewsIIRC several industry and government coding standards don't permit evaluations in arguments to functions, as the compiler can end up doing wonky things, to say nothing of the likely human error. These are the kind of standards we should be adapting into a software building code to avoid security holes like this one.
These standards are that way because older languages (specifically C and C++) have unspecified evaluation orders for arguments, so multiple argument expressions with conflicting side-effects are non-portable.
Here the expressions are pure, OooE has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue.