From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-02T23:09:27+09:00
Subject: Re: a = b = c order of evaluation weird

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 02. Okt 2007, 22:25:26 +0900 schrieb David A. Black:
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> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Mariusz P�~Ykala wrote:
>> On 2007-10-02 21:06:32 +0900 (Tue, Oct), Calamitas wrote:
>>> My impression was that the OP knew what the evaluation order is, but
>>> not why it is like that.
>>
>> I guess it's safer to say that the order of evaluating arguments is
>> undefined, unless it is stated somewhere.
>>
>> Is it defined for ruby?
>
> I believe that a subscript expression is always going to be evaluated
> first:

I never found it's good programming practice in any language
to rely on evaluation order of function/method arguments.
Understanding your own code will become unneccessarily hard.

Bertram


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