note 97872 added to language.operators.increment

Knowing nothing about how PHP implements these operators, it appears to me that dsbeam's tests below yield a logical result. After all, in order for the post-increment/post-decrement operators to return the initial value *before* the operation occurs, I would think the operators must use a small amount of memory to store the initial value before performing the operation. Otherwise, the initial value wouldn't be available to return after the operation. Here's a pseudo code example of how pre- and post-increment operators might be implemented: operator ++() // pre-increment increment value return value operator ++(int) // post-increment store value increment value return stored value from before increment ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 98.151.254.181 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.increment.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/97872 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97872 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/97872 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php