Re: Re: [VOTE] [RFC] Alphanumeric Decrement

Hi Tjerk, On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tjerk Meesters <tjerk.meesters@gmail.com>wrote: > I still have an RFC lying around that suggests this, together with some > other changes to how increment / decrement works. Perhaps we could flesh > this out further? > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/normalize_inc_dec > The following behaviour is proposed: // booleans $a = false; ++$a; // bool(true) $a = true; --$a; // bool(false) // null values $a = null; --$a; // null $a = null; ++$a; // null // empty strings $a = ''; ++$a; // int(1) // non-numeric strings $a = '12d9'; ++$a; // string(4) "12e0" + Notice: String increment is deprecated, use str_inc() instead in php shell code on line 1 ++$a; // float(13) +1 especially boolean++/--. It's great for flip flop. I guess most users use int++ and int%2 for flip flop currently. Existing scripts using ++/-- against bool would be a bug most likely. Other proposal sounds reasonable to me, too. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net