in reply to Re: Will "$_[0]=shift" always resolve shift first?
in thread Will "$_[0]=shift" always resolve shift first?

Associativity controls the order in which operators are evaluated in a chain of operators of the same precedence.

If operand evaluation order was tied to operator precedence and associativity, bar() would be evaluated before foo() in

foo() + bar() * baz()

(It's not.)