Documentation error

I notice that in the precedence chart the new **= operator is missing:

http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php

It’s not on docs.php.net either, so the manual must just be out-of-date.

The announcement (below) says that it is right associative, but the precedent
chart above says that it is left associative. From the example it seems to be
right associative.

http://php.net/migration56.new-features

Yeah, that’s weird. If we check the actual PHP source, we see it is right-associative:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/a8b97086d7c5bd5df5243d11bb8b5e9406a2b6c2/Zend/zend_language_parser.y#L112

And I distinctly recall the RFC saying it was right-associative.

Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/

Hi Alain,

I notice that in the precedence chart the new **= operator is missing:

http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.precedence.php

The announcement (below) says that it is right associative, but the precedent
chart above says that it is left associative. From the example it seems to be
right associative.

Thanks for spotting that; I’ll fix that later today if nobody beats me to it.

http://php.net/migration56.new-features

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