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Momchil Velikov wrote:
> This construct is already taken.

It is not. There are unspecified semantics for the
superficially similar construct that appears in C++.

> Why break it leaving no alternative?

Agreed. Fortunately, specifying order of evaluation
does not involve breaking anything.

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