Re: bool values and increment operators?
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:25:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: bool values and increment operators? | ||
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 15:03, Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com>
wrote:
> The documentation has a highlighted box stating
> "Note: The increment/decrement operators only affect numbers and strings.
> Arrays, objects and resources are not affected. Decrementing NULL values
> has no effect too, but incrementing them results in 1."
>
The NULL part of that has always baffled me. Why should ++ not be
symmetrical with -- here?
In general, documenting what we currently do is great, but is separate from
agreeing that it's what we *should* do.
Regards,
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]