On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:09:15PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: : I suspect that a lot would break if the order of : evaluation changed. And I think it would be sensible for Perl 6 to : define such an order.
Certainly. The fact that Perl 5 doesn't define it is merely an oversight, brought on no doubt by a lack of oversight. But as you point out it can deduced by observation of all the various implementations of Perl. :-) Larry
