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by Akronymus 1060 days ago
Should ternaries be left or right associative?
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chiyc 1060 days ago
Right associative! It's just one of the many rites of passage for people working with PHP to get bitten by its left associative ternaries. Naked nested ternaries are deprecated now, but maybe one day, PHP can have right associative ternaries.
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retrocryptid 1060 days ago
Except when it's not, like in perl.
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balfebs 1060 days ago
Not sure what you mean, but ternaries are right-associative in Perl just like most other languages. PHP is the odd one out.
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retrocryptid 1060 days ago
Except when they're not.
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User23 1060 days ago
And when is that? The docs just say it's right associative[1]. And while it's been a long time since I've written any nontrivial Perl, I don't remember ever having ?: be left associative.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop

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