#50372 [NEW]: Ternary statements are not identical

From: jakeophobia at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Ternary statements are not identical Description: ------------ On page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php In 'Example #3 Non-obvious Ternary Behaviour' The two statements are not 'identical'. The second ternary statment has parenthesis on 'false' Expected result: ---------------- ... echo (true?'true':false?'t':'f'); ...the following is a more obvious version of the same code as above... echo ((true ? 'true' : false) ? 't' : 'f'); ... Actual result: -------------- ... echo (true?'true':false?'t':'f'); ...the following is a more obvious version of the same code as above... echo ((true ? 'true' : 'false') ? 't' : 'f'); ... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50372&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50372&r=mysqlcfg