Re: Documentation error

On 29 Aug 2014, at 01:43, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > I notice that in the precedence chart the new **= operator is missing: > > http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php It’s not on docs.php.net either, so the manual must just be out-of-date. > The announcement (below) says that it is right associative, but the precedent > chart above says that it is left associative. From the example it seems to be > right associative. > > http://php.net/migration56.new-features Yeah, that’s weird. If we check the actual PHP source, we see it is right-associative: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/a8b97086d7c5bd5df5243d11bb8b5e9406a2b6c2/Zend/zend_language_parser.y#L112 And I distinctly recall the RFC saying it was right-associative. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/