On 8/6/13 5:21 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 06, 2013 09:20:38 AM Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> DJ Mills <danielmil...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I still don't see that;
>>
>> Go strictly from left to right.
>
> How do you assign something that hasn't been evaluated yet? Evaluating the
> expression on the RHS is an absolute prerequisite to evaluating the
> assignment
> itself. (x += x) = 1 is nonsense. It evaluates to 0 = 1.
I think you're talking past each other. Andreas is talking about
evaluating the expression on the RHS from left to right.
Chet
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