ID: 20548 Comment by: lew at mailduct dot com Reported By: prgallier at yahoo dot com Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux 2.4 PHP Version: 4.3.2-dev New Comment:
This is a GROSS inconsistency in how the increment/decrement operators work, and one that coders are likely to stumble upon the hard way. Please study the effect of fixing this, at the expense of breaking a long-time quirk in BC. Breaking a quirk, and documenting it on the BC page, is better than maintaining a GROSS inconsistency in one of the basic language construct operators! Please fix this! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-03 12:57:49] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a valid bug, however a fix would be a BC break that would result in a beahviour change that was in place since 3.0 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-14 17:14:59] bulletbait at yahoo dot com I just stumbled across this bug recently with an older version (4.1.1) of PHP on Win32 -- verified that it still exists in 4.3.0. This one had me going in circles trying to debug. Work-arounds: $score[$num] -= 1; or $score[$num] = $score[$num] - 1; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-21 12:42:11] prgallier at yahoo dot com The following: $score[$num]--; does not affect $score[$num] if $score[$num] is uninitiated. Using $score[$num]++ does work, however. This is inconsistent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20548&edit=1
