tmp=0; tmp+1:(tmp+=5)

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Jul-2001, Etienne Grossmann <address@hidden> wrote:

|   I would like to know whether the in a range "a:b", the left operand
| is always evaluated before the second. That is, can I do :
| 
|   tmp=0; tmp+1:(tmp+=5)
| 
|   and expect to get 1:5. I didn't find where in the docs the order of
| evaluation is specified.
| 
|   With 2.1.34, this works. Is it an undocumented feature? Can I expect
| it to work w/ future versions?

I don't have any plans to change this behavior, but I also don't plan
to guarantee that it will always work this way, so you should probalby
not depend on it.

jwe



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