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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Mon, 11 May 2009 08:20:07 -0400, Manfred Nowak <svv1...@hotmail.com> 
wrote:

Michel Fortin wrote:

          arra[i++] = arrb[j]; // how can the compiler issue an
          error for this?


assert( &i != &j);

-manfred

That is not a compiler error, it is an inserted runtime error.

Besides, it's just a particular case. Generally you can't tell modularly 
whether two expressions change the same variable.

Andrei