Re: chaining compound assignment results in undefined behavior

[Richard Crozier]

On 06/06/2014 17:33, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 17:20 +0330, Hossein Sajjadi wrote:

> >   This issue have been resolven in Java.
>
> I don't think there is any particular reason to do whatever Java does
> here. Octave's behaviour here seems to be another sensible thing to
> do. Normally = is right-associative, so I see no reason for += to be
> left-associative.
>
> - Jordi G. H.


I would certainly be a lot more surprised by what Java does than what 
Octave does. I would expect assignments to happen right-to-left.

Richard


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