note 123522 added to function.assert

Had a tricky situation where the code with assert() worked fine in development, but not in production. The problem was when variables changed value as part of the assert test, for example: assert(5 === ++$i); This is valid PHP code, but caused havoc in production when the logic expected $i to have been incremented. A similar problem would exist with in-line assignments, such as: assert(!$i = sin($angle)); This is probably a very rare problem, but PHP should in principle throw an error in such cases. Hopefully that can be added in all maintained versions. ---- Server IP: 208.43.231.9 Probable Submitter: 185.85.3.142 (proxied: 85.166.29.87) ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.assert.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/123522 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/123522 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/123522 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php