Re: svn: /phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/migration70/ new-features.xml

On 22 October 2015 at 02:41, Bob Weinand <bwoebi@php.net> wrote: > bwoebi Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:41:30 +0000 > > Revision: > http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=338015 > > Log: > Fix bug #70746 (Please document spaceship as returning -1 or 0 or 1) > > Bug: https://bugs.php.net/70746 (Verified) Please document > spaceship as > returning -1 or 0 or 1 > > Changed paths: > U phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/migration70/new-features.xml > > Modified: phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/migration70/new-features.xml > =================================================================== > --- phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/migration70/new-features.xml 2015-10-21 > 20:47:06 UTC (rev 338014) > +++ phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/migration70/new-features.xml 2015-10-22 > 01:41:30 UTC (rev 338015) > @@ -144,10 +144,9 @@ > <sect2 xml:id="migration70.new-features.spaceship-op"> > <title>Spaceship operator</title> > <para> > - The spaceship operator is used for comparing two expressions. It > returns an > - <type>integer</type> less than, equal to, or greater than zero when > - <varname>$a</varname> is respectively less than, equal to, or greater > than > - <varname>$b</varname>. Comparisons are performed according to PHP's > usual > + The spaceship operator is used for comparing two expressions. It > returns -1, 0 > + or 1 when <varname>$a</varname> is respectively less than, equal to, > or greater > + than <varname>$b</varname>. Comparisons are performed according to > PHP's usual > <link linkend="types.comparisons">type comparison rules</link>. > It is my understanding that the spaceship operator isn't guaranteed to return those values: even if it does in 99.999% of cases. Is the -1, 0 or 1 behaviour now guaranteed and I just missed that change? If the operator is guaranteed to return -1, 0 or 1 then great. Otherwise we should at least mention the possibility, however small, of different values (if indeed that is still possible). > </para> > <informalexample> > > > -- > PHP Documentation Commits Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >