Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 6:48 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 24.04.2019 at 19:25, Sara Golemon wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> 20 years of code in the wild has not "accepted that fact and moved on". > If > >> a left-associative ternary is used, it is almost certainly a bug. If > people > >> use this structure by accident (because it is familiar from other > >> programming languages), I'd like them to get an error instead of having > to > >> figure out why their obviously correct code is not working or, in the > worse > >> case, just leave behind buggy code. > > > > I'm on dismal wifi at the moment, else I'd do some searches, but do you > > have any examples of code in the wild subject to this bug? > > I agree it's a lousy state, but it's not emergent. > > See <https://externals.io/message/105345#105389>. > > Okay, so the most compelling part for me in this analysis is the fact that Symfony and ZF have issues. I can shrug off a lot of questionable PHP coders, but i have to acknowledge major frameworks stumbling on this gotcha. Convinced. +1 -Sara