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

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>  mydic[x] = mydic[y] = mydic[z] = mydic.length;

> auto tmp = mydic.length;
> mydic[x] = tmp;
> mydic[y] = tmp;
> mydic[z] = tmp;
>
> ???
>
> That sucks.  We have to remember, there are reasons why we stopped having to
> use assembly :)

Funny, I vastly prefer the latter to the former.  Having more than one
thing happen on one line is very difficult to read after having
written it, for me.