Just for grins, I was trying to see what my local perl would produce. To my surprise, my answer was different! But then I tried a few more things and realized I had misstyped the original problem.

But since I found this interesting, I thought I'd share. (Note, this behavior might also show up in the off-site link from the original poster in my earlier post in this node, but that's old and off-site.)

$ perl -e 'my $m = 20; print $m++ + $m++, "\n"'
41

$ perl -e 'my $m = 20; print $m++ + ++$m, "\n"'
42

$ perl -e 'my $m = 20; print ++$m + $m++, "\n"'
43

$ perl -e 'my $m = 20; print ++$m + ++$m, "\n"'
44

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--chargrill 
s**lil*;  $*=join'',sort split q**;  s;.*;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; =
qq-$_-;s,.*,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$*,$/)

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In reply to Re^2: Auto Increment "magic" Inquiry by chargrill
in thread Auto Increment "magic" Inquiry by brusimm

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