On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:31:00PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:

> What I've always been annoyed by is the *precedence* of the operator - having 
> to add brackets to mix it with string concatenation, etc - which it turns out 
> to is the same in all sorts of languages.

It is the ''all sorts of languages'' that is key here. The point is that PHP
associativity for ?: is different from other languages and it is that that
confuses and leads to bugs. What is right/wrong is not as important as all
others doing it the other way.

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