sean Fri Sep 1 15:33:53 2006 UTC
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/language operators.xml
Log:
note about non-obvious ternary evaluation (and recommend to avoid stacking);
bug #38679
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml?r1=1.102&r2=1.103&diff_format=u
Index: phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.102
phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.103
--- phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml:1.102 Tue May 9 18:18:34 2006
+++ phpdoc/en/language/operators.xml Fri Sep 1 15:33:53 2006
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.102 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.103 $ -->
<chapter id="language.operators">
<title>Operators</title>
<simpara>
@@ -686,6 +686,34 @@
issued in later PHP versions.
</simpara>
</note>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ Is is recomended that you avoid "stacking" ternary expressions. PHP's
+ behaviour when using more than one ternary operator within a single
+ statement is non-obvious:
+ <example>
+ <title>Non-obvious Ternary Behaviour</title>
+ <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+// on first glance, the following appears to output 'true'
+echo (true?'true':false?'t':'f');
+
+// however, the actual output of the above is 't'
+// this is because ternary expressions are evaluated from left to right
+
+// the following is a more obvious version of the same code as above
+echo ((true ? 'true' : 'false') ? 't' : 'f');
+
+// here, you can see that the first expression is evaluated to 'true', which
+// in turn evaluates to (bool)true, thus returning the true branch of the
+// second ternary expression.
+?>
+]]>
+ </programlisting>
+ </example>
+ </para>
+ </note>
</sect2>
</sect1>
