Ford, Mike wrote:
On 14 March 2007 22:52, Richard Lynch wrote:
On Wed, March 14, 2007 6:52 am, Myron Turner wrote:
Richard Lynch wrote:
On Tue, March 13, 2007 6:04 pm, Jonathan Kahan wrote:
The = operator takes precedence, and $d is set to 0.
But why? According to the manual, the modulus operator has
precedence over the equals! So shouldn't this expression resolve
to: ($s % $d) = 0 which gives an error?
Ya got me there.
I hadn't even checked the precedence list before answering.
Unless somebody has a rational explanation, I think this should be an
error...
When a similar anomaly involving the ! operator was reported
(http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17180), the response was that PHP is "smart"
about such things and invokes the DWIM principle to silently alter the precedence of = in
certain situations. This resulted in the addition of a note to the end of the operator
precedence page at
http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.php#language.operators.precedence, but it
seems to me that this is too specific to the ! operator and should be generalized. In
fact, I'd completely forgotten that I suggested as much at the end of the bug report --
but this hasn't been taken up, so maybe a bunch of you want to re-activate the bug report
and support my suggestion??
Cheers!
Mike
I've submitted a bug report with respect to this:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40820.
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