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

[bearophile]

Georg Wrede:
> If Walter had ulimited time, the of course I'd favor either defining the 
> precedence, or then enforcing errors on them, and not leaving them 
> undefined. Or, probably, with Walter's unlimited time, I'd vote for a 
> system that is the Theoretically Best mix of programming praxis and 
> compiler enforcement.

Java is currently the most used language because it gives a big help in avoiding bugs or fixing them. And today Java is not a slow language. Java shows why having undefined things is bad for productivity and doesn't give much performance or portability.

Bye,
bearophile