John Macdonald says:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:19:15PM -0500, James Wetterau wrote:
> >
> >
> > Paul Johnson says:
> > > As far as I know, it is not documented, and that is deliberate.
> > ...
> >
> > Ah, so the source is the canonical documentation, then.
>
> So each instance of the source is a (possibly different)
> canonical documentation.
Yeah, I was thinking about this a moment longer after my earlier glib
reply and thought: if this is not documented *and* that is deliberate,
it would be nice if there were some documentation some place saying:
"The order of evaluation here is not documented explicitly because we
reserve the right to change it in future perls". Without such a
document, the wretched perl programmer might be left forever unsure of
what's what in this regard.
(Of course I may have missed the official documentation of all this
somewhere, hence my original question.)
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