Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/language variables.xml

On 21 Apr 2003, Andrew Lindeman wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 21:13, Philip Olson wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2003, Andrew Lindeman wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 20:18, Philip Olson wrote: > > > > This looks wrong to me, this little silly quirk doesn't > > > > deserve it's own example, maybe a <note>. After looking > > > > at the current docs I think this should simply be an > > > > added sentence to what already exists there. > > > > > > > > That said, this bug should turn into a feature request > > > > for decrement of 'b' to work as opposed to being > > > > closed. What sense does it make to go one way and > > > > not the other? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Philip > > > > > > > I see what you mean, however, I couldn't think of a good way to describe > > > this 'quirk' without an example, or at least not as accurately ask I > > > seemed to like. > > > > > > Would just the sentence I put before the example work -- something like > > > 'Note that you cannot decrement a string, only increment it.' > > > and then remove the example? That's fine to me, I'm open to ideas :) > > > > How about: > > > > "Note that character variables can be incremented but > > not decremented." > > > > And truth be known I feel this entire topic should be moved > > from language.variables to language.operators.increment. > > > > Regards, > > Philip > > I agree. Committed to CVS -- hope this one looks better ;) Btw, I was meaning appending it to the current sentence and not a <note> (changed mind halfway through the paragraph) but oh well, either method works great here and this thread has gotten too long :) Regards, Philip