2016-07-25 18:28 GMT+02:00 Niccolo Medici <niccolomedici@gmail.com>:
On 7/25/16, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
The documentation for multiple assignment (section "3.3.3 –
Assignment" in the manual) doesn't mention the fact the assignment is
*not* carried out in order.
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BTW, is it guaranteed that the assignment order goes from RIGHT to
LEFT (I verified this in Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, LuaJIT), or is it
"undefined behavior"?
It is not undefined behavior at all.
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It is like in C, which does not specify the order of evaluation of
expressions in argument lists in function calls.
You actually prove my point here.
...
You give two reasons.
First, you say "it's implementation detail". That's no reason to not
state that it's "unspecified behavior".
Second, you say "this allows us to change the implementation". Again:
that's no reason to not state that it's "unspecified behavior".
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And that's wrong too.
I am not easily shocked, but this response by an OP to a reply by
a member of the Lua team is some of the worst trolling I have ever
seen on any mailing list.
