Re: This Week on perl5-porters (1-7 September 2003)

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 03:42  PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

> Order of evaluation
>   Mark-Jason Dominus asks whether the order of evaluation of some 
> binary
>   operators is defined ; for example, whether the "." concatenation
>   operator guarantees that its left-hand side will be evaluated before 
> its
>   right-hand side. The question is more about the future 
> implementations
>   of Perl (or Ponie) than about the past ones. The answer is undefined.
>
>       http://xrl.us/sow
>

"The answer is undefined" is ambiguous in this context.  Does this mean 
"The discussion yielded no conclusive answer" or "The discussion 
concluded that the order of evaluation is not defined"?

Chris Dolan