Doc #54696 [NEW]: Error: If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low

From: Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Error: If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.range#Return Values --- The description of a decrementing range is at best ambiguous, at worst wrong: "If low > high, the sequence will be from high to low." Having defined 'low' to be the first arg and 'high' to be the 2nd arg, it is reasonable, though potentially confusing to consider "low > high" (confusing because 'low' is actually higher than 'high' in natural language). However to then state that the sequence is from 'high' (the smaller value) to 'low' (the greater value) is wrong. It would be much better if the names low and high were completely replaced with 'first' and 'last' (or maybe 'limit', to account for ranges that don't exactly divide by the increment). This would be semantically correct in both the ascending and descending case and completely unambiguous. It would even be semantically better in terms of inclusivity where the comparison with the common zero-based form of 'for' loop might lead us to expect the top value to be exclusive: for ($x=0; $x<10; $x++) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54696&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54696&r=mysqlcfg