What's going on here?

[monarch_dodra]

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 05:34:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> It's a bug in the compiler. Evaluation should proceed as if it 
> were strictly left to right. So test(&size) must be called 
> before size is loaded to construct the slice. Please report.
>
> Andrei

I remember this conversation popping up repeatedly. *Did* we ever 
make the choice to enforce this? I mean, is this part of the spec 
now? When did it happen? I seem to remember Walter was always 
against it.