In .NET why does event connection order matter like this?

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static class Program
{
    static event Action A = delegate { };
    static event Action B = delegate { };

    static void Main()
    {
        A += B;
        B += ()=>Console.WriteLine("yeah");
        A.Invoke();
    }
}

This doesn't print anything, but if I swap the first two lines of Main, it does.

Events are immutable, i.e. you get a copy when assigning, like integers

int a = 1;
int b = 2;

a += b; // a == 3
b += 1; // a is still 3

A += B; is appending the list of delegates from B into A. It is copying the contents of B, not a reference to B.

It is the same as:

A = (Action)System.Delegate.Combine(A, B);

So the order is definitely important.