<bq source="The Old New Thing" author="Raymond Chen" href="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180711-00/?p=99215">In practice, nearly everything you write is potentially dependent upon the order of evaluation, but in practice it isn't because you are not a nincompoop.</bq> He completes the thought with <iq>[b]ut the compiler doesn't know that. The compiler must adhere to the letter of the language standard, because it has to compile insane code as well as sane code.</iq>