On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 15:03, Christian Schneider <cschn...@cschneid.com> wrote:
> The documentation has a highlighted box stating > "Note: The increment/decrement operators only affect numbers and strings. > Arrays, objects and resources are not affected. Decrementing NULL values > has no effect too, but incrementing them results in 1." > The NULL part of that has always baffled me. Why should ++ not be symmetrical with -- here? In general, documenting what we currently do is great, but is separate from agreeing that it's what we *should* do. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]