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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow null variables to be decremented
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Am 19.02.2020 um 15:52 schrieb C=C3=B4me Chilliet =
<come.chilliet@fusiondirectory.org>:
> Le mardi 18 f=C3=A9vrier 2020, 20:27:37 CET Rowan Tommins a =C3=A9crit =
:
>> With booleans, there is at least a consistency between those two=20
>> operators, even though it's consistently weird. There's definitely a=20=

>> strong case for making them match +=3D1 and -=3D1 though.
>=20
> Is there any reason the engine is not running the same code or even =
compiling to the same opcodes $a++ and $a+=3D1?
> If it should never differ, why is it not the same operation?

$a++ is magic, see example #1 at =
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.increment.php=20

And no, this should not be changed as it would be a major BC.

- Chris