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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:47:42 +0100
Cc: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>,
  PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] [RFC] Alphanumeric Decrement
From: lars@strojny.net (Lars Strojny)

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I would rather introduce a deprecation warning for decrementing (and =
incrementing) alphanumeric strings. It=92s just very bad behaviour and =
using chr() and ord() is not that hard :)

cu,
Lars

On 21 Jan 2014, at 21:16, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:

>=20
>=20
> On 21/01/14 19:12, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
>> Added this RFC to keep track inconsistency.
>>=20
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparison_inconsistency
>>=20
>> Python/Ruby does not even have ++/--.
>> Mixing string and number raises type error for these languages.
>> Perl returns -1 for string-- always.
>>=20
>> Although behavior became more consistent than now, but
>> I'm not sure if this change is good or not.
>> Keeping current behavior might be better.
>=20
> This would also be my preferred approach. My RFC is one approach to =
resolving the inconsistency, but it's not what I really want, in truth. =
I'd like something like that you're proposing.
>=20
> However I think type juggling is entirely misguided, and should we do =
it at all, int -> string and float -> string should be one-way =
conversions. Doing the reverse seems like a bad idea to me.
>=20
> --=20
> Andrea Faulds
> http://ajf.me/
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