Re: [PROPOSAL] Alphanumeric decrement
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:26:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PROPOSAL] Alphanumeric decrement | ||
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Tjerk Meesters wrote (on 13/12/2013):
Basically it makes theYes please! One of my colleagues once raised a bug that currently incrementing null results in 1, but decrementing it results in it remaining null. On the other hand,$x++or++$xwork as if you types$x += 1or$x = $x + 1(except for arrays, currently) ++null becomes int(1), --null becomes int(-1)
null -= 1 results in -1 as you would expect.
The bug was closed as invalid, stating that this is documented behaviour, but I have never understood why this would be anything other than an accidental side effect of implementation, nor why you would ever rely on it.
++"123a" becomes "123b" but with a notice that string increment is deprecatedLukewarm on this part; the current syntax seems fairly logical to me, and the proposed new functions more ugly for no very good reason. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]