> My issue is that I see no reason to do the ASSIGNMENT FIRST and THEN > INCREMENT. > > That's just counter intuitive. In the case of $foo = $num++, everything to > the right of the = should be computed FIRST and THEN handed off to the left > side. This particular expression (and I'm unaware of any other PHP > expression that works this way) chooses to do some "FM" (f'n magic) and do > an assignment FIRST and THEN increment.
It's not the expression that works that way -- it's the operator. The post-increment operator /always/ does its work after the expression that it's in has been evaluated. Are you thinking it would be more intuitive if that operator departed from its normal behavior in this one special case? Ben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
