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[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, February 13, 2012 19:47:03 Artur Skawina wrote:
> On 02/13/12 18:57, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:07:52 Ali Çehreli wrote:
> >> Related question: Does D define the order of evaluation in an
> >> expression
> >> like
> >> 
> >> foo() ~ bar()
> >> 
> >> Or is it unspecified as in C and C++?
> > 
> > It's currently unspecified. Walter has stated that he wants to make it
> > so that it's always left to right, but I don't believe that he's done
> > it yet, and it may or may not ever happen.
> 
> Actually, it *is* specified as left-to-right, except for assignments and
> argument evaluation. http://dlang.org/expression.html
> No idea if the compiler fully implements that part of the spec.

Well, foo() ~ bar() _is_ argument evaluation if you're dealing with an 
overloaded operator. And unfortunately, whether the spec is what the compiler 
does is frequently suspect anyway. So, who knows.

- Jonathan M Davis