Re: [RFC] Fix the Tenary Operator -- Please!? Please?
| From: | Alain Williams | Date: | Thu, 26 Mar 2015 22:40:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Fix the Tenary Operator -- Please!? Please? | ||
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:31:00PM +0000, Rowan Collins wrote:
> What I've always been annoyed by is the *precedence* of the operator - having to add
> brackets to mix it with string concatenation, etc - which it turns out to is the same in all sorts
> of languages.
It is the ''all sorts of languages'' that is key here. The point is that PHP
associativity for ?: is different from other languages and it is that that
confuses and leads to bugs. What is right/wrong is not as important as all
others doing it the other way.
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