[IshKebab]

Yeah that is a footgun too. Enough that Rust defines argument evaluation order.

It is a much smaller footgun though and I don't recall ever being bitten by it. I have definitely been bitten by member initialisation order though multiple times. Generally because of questionable designs where one member is passed as a parameter of another member and it hasn't actually been initialised yet.

Really I think the answer is to initialise in the order that initialisation is written (this is what Rust does) rather than declaration order. But that would be a breaking change so I guess they opted for the conservative choice.