[PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #4037 Updated: improper parsing of logical statements From: Zak Greant (zak <email protected>)
Date: 08/15/00

At 06:38 PM 8/15/00 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
>OK, you are right - according to the manual, I should have used the
>logical operator 'and' instead of '&&' .
>I still think that this is wrong though, and misleading - high level
>programming languages always set the logical operators (no matter how they
>are named) as lower precedence then assignment operators (actually, the
>lowest),

Hmmm... my reference books are at home, but I seem to remember that this is
not the case for C or for Perl

> and if you want a different behaviour then you use parenthesis.

Parenthesis are almost always a good idea. They keep you from being
dependant on quirks with compilers and help make your code more maintainable.

>I'd hate to sound like a conformist or something, but this is damaging to
>people who start programming in PHP after doing a lot of high level
>programming in other languages. (and it was different in PHP3 ;-)

A large base of PHP users come from perl and C.

>Oded
>
>P.S.
>sorry this is going by email - I can't remember my password to the PHP bug
>database. I hope you won't get mad at me.

No worries :)

- Zak 

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