Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:54 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > The only objection here came from Gabriel, and I don't think we'll come to > an agreement. > Inspired by Bob's recent RFC for concat precedence, I'd like to propose a > deprecation and removal of the left-associative behavior of ternaries. > Instead, explicit parentheses should be used: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_The only objection here came > from > Gabriel, and I don't think we'll come to an agreement.associativity > <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity> > > This RFC makes nested ternaries without disambiguating parentheses an > error in PHP 8 -- we might want to consider making them right-associative > instead, which is both useful and matches the behavior of other languages. > > Regards, > Nikita > Heads up: Plan to start voting tomorrow. Apart from Bishop, would anyone else prefer to directly go to right associativity in PHP 8 rather than making it an error? I'm rather partial to that myself, maybe it can be included as a voting option... Nikita