Yes, you are right. In C, if you write: 
c = c++;

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the behavior is not defined by the C standard. Which does not mean that the compiler will return an undefined value. Just the implementer of the compiler is free to do whatever she or he wants. And I remember very well having tried it about 16 years ago with GCC under Linux and another compiler under Windows and having obtained the original value of c for one of them and the incremented value of c for the other (although I do not remember which one gave what). For this type of things, the Perl syntax is rooted in C, but, in a certain way, the behavior is not imposed by a standard which may be silent about certain edge cases, but is sort of defined by the Perl compiler itself. The Perl compiler gives the logical result that I would expect (although what the logical result should be might be considered debatable): 
my $c = 2;
$c = $c ++ ; # $c is now 2
$c = ++$c ; # $c is now 3

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And it seems to me that using $c and $c+=1 in the same expression falls into the same category as using $c and $c++ (or ++c) in the same expression, something not very well defined, which is why I also brought those additional examples. Your explanation using operator precedence does make sense (I had not seen it when I posted my examples), but it might simply just be one of those not well-defined behavior cases.

In reply to Re^4: Why does the first $c evaluate to the incremented value in [$c, $c += $_] ? by Laurent_R
in thread Why does the first $c evaluate to the incremented value in [$c, $c += $_] ? by smls

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