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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:25:16 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bool values and increment operators?
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 15:03, Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com>
wrote:

> The documentation has a highlighted box stating
> "Note: The increment/decrement operators only affect numbers and strings.
> Arrays, objects and resources are not affected. Decrementing NULL values
> has no effect too, but incrementing them results in 1."
>


The NULL part of that has always baffled me. Why should ++ not be
symmetrical with -- here?

In general, documenting what we currently do is great, but is separate from
agreeing that it's what we *should* do.

Regards,
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Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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