Re: Ternary associativity

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 1:32 PM Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > If anything, I would argue for making both of these into errors, if > that's possible. I think the biggest risk with this kind of change is > not existing code relying on the old behaviour, it is code relying on > the *new* behaviour which is accidentally run on older versions of PHP. I thought the proposal to turn unparenthesized use into a warning then waiting for PHP9 to use the proper precedence was the right idea. Nested ternaries with the proper precedence turn into lovely truth tables, which isn't even an uncommon idiom in C. I'd really not like to feed /r/lolphp ammo by requiring the parens in all cases and continuing to break the ternary operator in comparison with every other language that has it. --c