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Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators
From: george.banyard@gmail.com ("G. P. B.")

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Hello Internals,

I would like to start the discussion on the Path to Saner
Increment/Decrement operators RFC:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/saner-inc-dec-operators

The goal of this RFC is to reduce language complexity by making $v++ behave
like $v += 1 and $v-- behave like $v -= 1;

I am expecting the contentious part of the proposal to be the deprecation
of the PERL string increment feature to achieve the aforementioned goal.
However, I believe the benefits of aligning the behaviour of the
increment/decrement operators with addition/subtraction are larger than
keeping support for the PERL increment, which in its current state has
various shortcomings.

Best regards,

George P. Banyard

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