NoNo for Associativity of Assignments?

[Manfred Nowak]

Joel C. Salomon wrote

> In C-like languages, assignment is right-associative; a = b = c
> /always/ is parsed as a = (b = c).

I have already posted what the specs for D say about evaluation order: 
no right associativity for assignments is given.

When evaluating "a[ 1] = a[ 2] = ... = a[n]" the compiler is allowed to 
choose any assignment "a[ i] = a [i+1]" for some valid i at random 
order for evaluation.

The compiler is free to store those assignments in an AA and then loop 
in a foreach over those assignments to execute them---or even 
distribute them over several cores to be faster.

Of course DMD does not do such currently.

-manfred