PHP 4.0 Bug #7888 Updated: decrement syntax should be -- instead of -

ID: 7888 Updated by: hholzgra Reported By: jgoulooze@thinktoo.nl Status: Analyzed Bug Type: Documentation problem Assigned To: Comments: but it _is_ a documentation problem, even if it only affects part of the output formats (it should be visible in the postscript version too) so let's do not close it until it is solved Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 11:14:17] derick@php.net Forwarded to the doc group, it's only a mistake in the pdf version of tha manual. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-20 07:41:12] hholzgra@php.net 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 -' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online. Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=7888