There's just been a long thread about this on p5p. I think that "not really" is the current answer, and it's proved impossible to cleanly write down what the order of evaluation is. In the above line, they evaluate right to left, because the RHS of the assignment is being evaluated first: (snip) Fun and games about evaluation order appeared with assigning to hash slices and array slices (for example)
For simple assignments though, isn't it a necessity that it has to go RTL?
$a = 1; $b = 2; $c = 3; $a = $b = $c;
This sets $a to 3. If evaluation didn't go RTL, $a would be set to 2.
(mmm. there is something wrong here. At this rate, we'll outdo Israel.pm on the number of perl related messages)
Quick, let's move this discussion over to their list ;)
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