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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Fix incorrect ternary '?' associativity for 7.0?
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, George Bond wrote:

> If you wanted an upgrade path that was not Evil (in the sense of not 
> introducing subtle and hard-to-diagnose bugs), could you not change 
> the operator to be *un*associative in PHP7?  That would effectively 
> just make concrete the discouragement/deprecation that's already in 
> the documentation, and would produce irritating but very visible 
> errors for anyone still actually using this functionality, as well as 
> making them alter their code in a forward-compatible way.  Then if you 
> want to think really long term, plan to implement the 'correct' 
> associativity in the *next* major version.

As long as this unassociativity turns it into a hard syntax error (ie, 
"php -l" will catch it out), I am not against this.

cheers,
Derick