Hey: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Alain Williams <a...@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> -- >> Alain Williams >> Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT >> Lecturer. >> +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ >> Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: >> http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php >> #include <std_disclaimer.h> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > The feature freeze thing kinda rings hollow for me, as well, because we > were debating this fairly recently before the feature freeze and we still > got pushback from people who feared BC breakage. This is a bug (whether > we're calling it one or not, it is a bug) and it needs to be fixed. PHP > does handle it differently, yes, but the different way in which it's > handling it is wrong. At least, that seems to be the prevailing opinion > among devs. > > If we don't put this in 7.0 because of the feature freeze, it needs to go > into the next minor version if the RFC passes. We should've pulled the > trigger on this before the feature freeze and we shouldn't have to wait > until 8.0 because of that. > I don't think freeze should block bug fixes...
thanks > --Kris -- Xinchen Hui @Laruence http://www.laruence.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
