Req #72266 [NEW]: AND and OR combined operators

From: remyfox at hotmail dot com Operating system: Any PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Variables related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:AND and OR combined operators Description: ------------ From the manual http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.assignment.php: there are "combined operators" for all of the binary arithmetic, array union and string operators that allow you to use a value in an expression and then set its value to the result of that expression. Wouldn't it be better to allow combined operations for all binary operators? It seems arbitrary that some binary operators (such as the logical ones) don't support this. There seem to be plenty of use cases. Test script: --------------- // In a system where a user obtains a permission if he has at least one role that gives such a permission. $permitted = false; foreach ($user_roles as $user_role) { $permitted ||= $user_role["permitted"]; } // In a system where multiple validations exists which each return a boolean. $valid = true; foreach ($validations as $validation) { $valid &&= $validation(); } -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72266&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=72266&r=mysqlcfg