assignment: left-to-right or right-to-left evaluation?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> I also searched for the way Perl does it and got a tad disappointed:
>
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2003/09/msg82032.html
>
> Essentially the order of evaluation in Perl is as arbitrary and as
> specific-case-driven as if nobody really sat down and thought any of it.

You're surprised by that?  ;)