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On 10/08/2011 0.41, Mike Pall wrote:
Lars Doelle wrote:The semantics of the composite assignment is inconsistent.Not a bug. Assignment order is explicitly undefined in Lua: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-06/msg00378.html
I was about to reply to the OP saying almost the same, but I wanted to double check and browsed the manual and didn't find any mention to it.
I tried to recall where I did learn that the order of assignment and evaluation were undefined, but to no avail (I've never read the message above and its related thread before - BTW thanks for the pointer), but I'm almost sure it was a lingering information (PiL?, WIKI?).
Anyway, IMHO, a sentence about that would be an useful addition to the manual (when I was a real newbie of Lua, when I first saw the multiple assignment statement I was induced to think that a precise order of evaluation was guaranteed).
--Mike
-- Lorenzo