Re: Arithmetic assignment side-effects

[Linda Walsh]

Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Sunday, August 04, 2013 06:08:18 PM Linda Walsh wrote:
> > From the bash manpage, it would see that += is higher precedence
> > than assignment, so the increment would be done first, followed
> > by the attempt at an assignment of 1 to 1.
>
> = and += have equal precedence. Associativity is right to left, as described in 
> operator(7). x=1 occurs first.


Hmm... yeah I see that now...
manpage is a bit confusing having the word assignment
on a line lower than the rest (which includes assignment '=')

Well, that makes me feel better, as 2 looked more intuitive as I said
in the last note..