Re: [VOTE] [RFC] Alphanumeric Decrement

I would rather introduce a deprecation warning for decrementing (and incrementing) alphanumeric strings. It’s just very bad behaviour and using chr() and ord() is not that hard :) cu, Lars On 21 Jan 2014, at 21:16, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 21/01/14 19:12, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: >> Added this RFC to keep track inconsistency. >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparison_inconsistency >> >> Python/Ruby does not even have ++/--. >> Mixing string and number raises type error for these languages. >> Perl returns -1 for string-- always. >> >> Although behavior became more consistent than now, but >> I'm not sure if this change is good or not. >> Keeping current behavior might be better. > > This would also be my preferred approach. My RFC is one approach to resolving the > inconsistency, but it's not what I really want, in truth. I'd like something like that > you're proposing. > > However I think type juggling is entirely misguided, and should we do it at all, int -> > string and float -> string should be one-way conversions. Doing the reverse seems like a bad idea > to me. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >

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