[PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965
i'd try use chr($i) or something like that and start @ A value -Original Message- From: John Coggeshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 11:00 AM To: 'electroteque'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug #2965 This bug was changed to a documentation problem, and I'm a bit confused as to what exactly the issue is For($i = 'A'; $i = 'Z' $i++) echo $i; I'm assuming this *should* echo the A-Z alphabet (which it doesn't).. But, since it was changed to a documentation problem -- is the current form intended behavior? John -Original Message- From: electroteque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DEV] Zend Engine 2 Hello i was wondering when this is becoming available with the possibilities of private and public class features ? -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965
That's not the issue... In C, the behavior is to actually print the alphabet A-Z... It looks like our implementation is messed up, but the bug report is a bit misleading as to if I should fix the documentation to say you CAN'T do this, or fix the code so you can :) John -Original Message- From: Dan Rossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965 i'd try use chr($i) or something like that and start @ A value -Original Message- From: John Coggeshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 11:00 AM To: 'electroteque'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug #2965 This bug was changed to a documentation problem, and I'm a bit confused as to what exactly the issue is For($i = 'A'; $i = 'Z' $i++) echo $i; I'm assuming this *should* echo the A-Z alphabet (which it doesn't).. But, since it was changed to a documentation problem -- is the current form intended behavior? John -Original Message- From: electroteque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DEV] Zend Engine 2 Hello i was wondering when this is becoming available with the possibilities of private and public class features ? -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965
At 07:09 PM 11/28/02 -0500, John Coggeshall wrote: That's not the issue... In C, the behavior is to actually print the alphabet A-Z... It looks like our implementation is messed up, but the bug report is a bit misleading as to if I should fix the documentation to say you CAN'T do this, or fix the code so you can :) May I suggest the best choice is to fix the code. The current action is bizarre! A to Z followed by AA - AZ, BA - BZ ... up to YA-YZ, then if finally stops. A lower case range acts the same way with lower case characters. If that isn't bad enough for you, try the range from A to z. After 30 seconds it got up to AUHXT. Rick -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DEV] RE: Bug #2965
I'm conflicted on this one. On the one hand you've got PHP
somewhat at fault for treating letters as special characters
(such that 'Z'+1 == 'AA') rather than as their ordinal
equivalents (such that 'Z'+1 == ord('Z')+1 == 91 == ord('[')
== '[' ) which IMO is an ugly thing.
I personally like the C-consistency here, at least on this issue.
On the other hand, while it's inconsistent with C, it's
perfectly in line with Perl and it's a performance trend which
is presumably being relied upon by some. I can certainly see
where such behavior (heretofore unexpected by me) would come
in handy in fact.
Where possibly would this behavior of 'Z'+1 = 'AA' be useful?
Against my better judgement, I'm voting to leave the
interpreter as is and make notes in the documentation to
clarify behavior.
Given the choice, I'm personally for having single-characters treated as
ordinals when appropiate.
John
-Pollita
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