PHP operator precedence “Undefined order of evaluation”?

Question

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php#example-115

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Answer 1

It can be either 2 or 3. However in most of the time it will be 3. So why it MIGHT be 2? Because PHP is not describing in which order expressions are evaluated, since it might depends on the PHP version.