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BrowserUk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The title is the entire question really. I just got to wondering why the execution order for some expressions, for example:

my $rv = func( $i, ++i, $i+2 );

are institutionally undefined? Is because defining the execution order is:


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