[gradle-user] task dependency order

[Gretar Arnason]

Hi, I've was just trying out something and was wondering if the following is
an expected behavior (using 0.9-rc-2)

in build.gradle file:

task a << {
    println "a"
}

task b << {
    println "b"
}

task c (dependsOn: ["b","a"]) << {
    println "c"
}*
*

gives me the the output when running >gradle -q c:
a
b
c

I was expecting to see:
b
a
c

Is my intuition just wrong?
I would think that the order of dependencies should be respected if the
tasks being depended on do not have any dependencies defined themselves.
If I'm wrong about this can someone then explain here to me then what I
should expect and why?
How could I get the same effect without adding explicit dependency between a
and b?

Thanks
gretar