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:
- too hard.
- would disable some potential compile time or runtime optimisation.
- It would have some syntactic or semantic knock-on effect that would be undesirable?
- other
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