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On 14 July 2010 00:24, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > >> Quite. And >> >> print $i++, $i++; >> >> has DWIM forever (probably since perl 1). > > > Bad example. The operand evaluation order for the comma operator is not > undefined. It's documented that the arguments are evaluated from left to > right (allowing the comma can be used a "light" semicolon). A better example > would be > > print $i-- + $i++; > > The operand evaluation order of addition is not documented, so it could > return 5 or 7 for $i=3. But it always returns 5. > I concur. Certain operators make explicit guarantees about order of evaluation, and as such we cannot change them. Most operators do not, for instance non of the mathematical or comparison operators, nor concatenation. Whomever decided that $a . $a is specified when $a is tied and returns a different value each fetch had forgotten this fact. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next