On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 at 14:28, G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > I would like to start the discussion on the Path to Saner > Increment/Decrement operators RFC: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators > > The goal of this RFC is to reduce language complexity by making $v++ > behave like $v += 1 and $v-- behave like $v -= 1; > > I am expecting the contentious part of the proposal to be the deprecation > of the PERL string increment feature to achieve the aforementioned goal. > However, I believe the benefits of aligning the behaviour of the > increment/decrement operators with addition/subtraction are larger than > keeping support for the PERL increment, which in its current state has > various shortcomings. > I have added a section about impact on the PERL increment deprecation to the RFC. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators I am also planning on opening the vote on this on Wednesday the 28th of June. Best regards, George P. Banyard
