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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:09:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate left-associative ternary operator
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:54 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi internals,
> The only objection here came from Gabriel, and I don't think we'll come to
> an agreement.
> Inspired by Bob's recent RFC for concat precedence, I'd like to propose a
> deprecation and removal of the left-associative behavior of ternaries.
> Instead, explicit parentheses should be used:
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_The only objection here came from
> Gabriel, and I don't think we'll come to an agreement.associativity
> <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity>
>
> This RFC makes nested ternaries without disambiguating parentheses an
> error in PHP 8 -- we might want to consider making them right-associative
> instead, which is both useful and matches the behavior of other languages.
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>

Heads up: Plan to start voting tomorrow.

Apart from Bishop, would anyone else prefer to directly go to right
associativity in PHP 8 rather than making it an error? I'm rather partial
to that myself, maybe it can be included as a voting option...

Nikita

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