Re: Feature Proposal: Allow letter decrementing

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Does anybody understand the rules behind the string incrementation? What's >> the explanation of following behaviour? >> >> '$x="ZZ";$x++;var_dump($x);' returns string(3) "AAA" >> '$x=" ZZ";$x++;var_dump($x);' returns string(3) " AA" >> > > see > http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.increment.php I don't see any explanation for the examples above. Documentation says: [...] For example, in PHP and Perl $a = 'Z'; $a++; turns $a into 'AA' [...] I'd expect " ZZ" to become " AAA" rather than " AA". I'm not sure if it's a bug in documentation, in code. Probably nobody can even distinguish if it's a bug or feature. Mateusz Kocielski