Bug #79970 [NEW]: Null coalescing operator needs to have a higher precedence value

From: folarin at engineer dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *Programming Data Structures Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Null coalescing operator needs to have a higher precedence value Description: ------------ Look at the following example $var1 = true $var2 = true if($var1??false && $var2) echo 'Passed" else echo 'Failed' The above expresion always prints 'Failed' which isn't the expected behaviour. Just like the Parenthesis, the null-coalescing operator should ALWAYS be expressed first. This now causes the unwanted, over-expressive use of parenthesis to remedy the cause ALL THE TIME: if(($var1??false) && ($var2??false))... why do I have to do the above when none of -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79970&edit=1 -- Fix committed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=globals PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=phptooold Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=79970&r=mysqlcfg