Re: [RFC] Change the precedence of the concatenation operator

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:33 PM Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I feel like concatenation having the same precedence than addition and > subtraction is promoting programmers to make mistakes. Albeit typically > easy to catch ones, it is a quality of life change at least. > > Hence I'm proposing a RFC changing the precedences: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/concatenation_precedence > > Bob > Similarly to the ternary associativity RFC, I've analyzed the top 2000 composer packages and checked whether they would be affected by this change: https://gist.github.com/nikic/a4df3e8e18c7955c2c21cf6cdb4cbfaa The tl;dr is that there were 5 instances where behavior would change per this RFC, and all 5 of them are bugs in current code and would be interpreted correctly after this RFC. Nikita