Proof by experimentation's not valid for programming languages. Bad, bad idea. (This isn't physics here--the rules of the universe are subject to change from version to versions) Only what the standard, or the documentation, guarantees is valid to count on. Everything else should be considered a quirk of the implementation.

This bit, in particular, could easily be changed with a small cahnge to the optimizer, or optree generator. That it hasn't happened is mainly because nobody's bothered. (Well, because that part of the code's reasonably scary) Because of the way that perl works internally, both the pre and post increment versions of that code could easily resolve to 6.

Trust Abigail here. Don't count on the behaviour of multiple manipulations to a variable without an intervening sequence point.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Incrementing a Hash Value by Elian
in thread Incrementing a Hash Value by arunhorne

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