RE: PHP 4.0 Bug #7888 Updated: decrement syntax should be -- inst ead of -

Yes, it is there... Is it one of these functions where certain sign combinations get translated in something else, in this case a -- gets translated in a slightly longer minus sign? Jeroen Goulooze -----Original Message----- From: Bug Database [mailto:php-dev@lists.php.net] Sent: maandag 20 november 2000 13:41 To: jgoulooze@thinktoo.nl Subject: PHP 4.0 Bug #7888 Updated: decrement syntax should be -- instead of - ID: 7888 Updated by: hholzgra Reported By: jgoulooze@thinktoo.nl Status: Feedback Bug Type: Documentation problem Assigned To: Comments: i guess it is in the PDF version? it is a known problem (at least to me ) that the TeX backend converts a '--' into a 'long -' Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 06:27:23] derick@php.net Where exactly in the manual do you find this? I couldn't find it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 06:23:48] derick@php.net It's a typo in the manual. Fixing it now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 06:17:13] jgoulooze@thinktoo.nl The documentation says $a= 5; -$a; echo $a; theresult: 4 $a= 5; $a-; echo $a theresult: 4 In reality however both report an error Instead it should be: $a--; --$a; Which makes more sense to me since it is also ++$a and $a++. Is this just the winversion, has it to do with phptriad or is this a mistake in the documentation? Since I probably end up serving the pages on Linux and building it on Wintel it could be quite a problem. Jeroen Goulooze --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7888