Evaluation order of index expressions

[kinke via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 08:00:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> It might be completely well-defined and consistent, but it may 
> not be what you expect, and even if it is, a slight change to 
> the code could change the order.

If the behavior isn't what I expect (and I don't think that's 
often case for left-to-right order), then the language should 
force me to express the intention differently. If it's not 
well-defined, I may not be aware of such issues until I use a 
different compiler. Allowing implementation-dependent evaluation 
order is just begging for additional bugs and portability issues.

Another example:

b = 0;
((++b *= 5) *= 2) += ++b * (b -= 6);

DMD yields b=60, LDC the intuitively correct b=65. If it's well 
defined, one may argue about the form of such a statement, but 
it's not silly code with different results depending on the used 
D compiler anymore.

+1 for Timon's PR being merged asap.