Re: [RFC] Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators
| From: | Jordan LeDoux | Date: | Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:44:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators | ||
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 6:28 AM G. P. B. <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals,
>
> I would like to start the discussion on the Path to Saner
> Increment/Decrement operators RFC:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators
>
> The goal of this RFC is to reduce language complexity by making $v++ behave
> like $v += 1 and $v-- behave like $v -= 1;
>
> I am expecting the contentious part of the proposal to be the deprecation
> of the PERL string increment feature to achieve the aforementioned goal.
> However, I believe the benefits of aligning the behaviour of the
> increment/decrement operators with addition/subtraction are larger than
> keeping support for the PERL increment, which in its current state has
> various shortcomings.
>
> Best regards,
>
> George P. Banyard
>
I don't see a section in the RFC about JIT or anything related to OpCache,
but I know from experience with the Operator Overloads RFC that there are
several architecture specific assembly optimizations for ++ and --. Have
these been considered, and how will they be impacted?
Jordan