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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:03:59 -0500 (CDT)
To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 1/-2*5  (bug 41401)
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > Looks like we have a precedence bug in the parser rules there.
> > Fortunately it's quite easy to fix, for example writing the rules as:
> > 
> >     |    '+' expr %prec T_INC
> >     |    '-' expr %prec T_INC
> > 
> > seems to work. Any reason not to?
> 
> I think this should go in.  It is an obvious mistake in the parser as
> far as I am concerned.

However, it's probably possible that this will break some stuff for 
people, so I don't think we should do it in PHP 4.4.

regards,
Derick