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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
December 16, 2019 11:39
Subject:
Re: Scope and Ordering
Message ID:
20191216113851.GZ3620@iabyn.com
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 04:27:10PM +0000, Zefram via perl5-porters wrote:
> >I propose that a few aspects of ordering are well defined; everything
> >else is left undefined,
>
> This sounds unPerlish. Traditionally we define order of evaluation
> quite strongly. You can also bet that any change to order of evaluation
> will bite someone.
I was thinking of things like when exactly FETCH() is called; traditionally
we haven't well-defined this in other parts of perl and I see no reason
to tie our hands here.
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