Order of evaluation

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Order of evaluation

Apart from assignment, all expressions are always evaluated from left to right. Be it math/bitwise/comparison or parameters to functions or elements of an immediate list.

“a+b*c” is evaluated as:

  1. load value of a
  2. add value of b
  3. multiply with value of c

“bla(x[]++, x[]++)” is evaluated as:

  1. load value of x[] as first parameter
  2. increment x
  3. load value of x[] as second paramater
  4. increment x
  5. call function

Assignment always evaluates right hand side expression first, then if needed, evaluates the left hand side.

“x[exp] := y[]++” is evaluated as:

  1. load value from y[]
  2. increment y
  3. evaluate exp
  4. store value in x[exp]