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Implication sounds right. With no further analysis, running each line in order is correct (for whatever "order" is defined by a language, let's assume imperative).

A compiler could recognise that e.g. L_2 doesn't depend on L_1, and would be free to reorder them. And compilers do recognise this in terms of data dependence of operations.





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