> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 2:26 PM > To: George Bond > Cc: PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0? > > > > On 14 Dec 2014, at 12:01, George Bond > <happy.melon.wiki...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > If you wanted an upgrade path that was not Evil (in the sense of not > > introducing subtle and hard-to-diagnose bugs), could you not change > > the operator to be *un*associative in PHP7? That would effectively > > just make concrete the discouragement/deprecation that's already in > > the documentation, and would produce irritating but very visible > > errors for anyone still actually using this functionality, as well as > > making them alter their code in a forward-compatible way. Then if you > > want to think really long term, plan to implement the 'correct' > > associativity in the > > *next* major version. > > Hey George, > > That sounds like a good approach, actually, although I'm not sure about later > fixing the associativity. If we make it non-associative this does break things, > but very loudly rather than changing code's behaviour. I think we should do > this.
Although my inclination would be not to change anything, I agree that if we do decide to change it, George's idea is the best approach. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
