[RobotToaster]

How could you leave out left-associative ternary operators?

[userbinator]

That's exactly what I was expecting to read about upon seeing the article title.

But apparently they deprecated and then changed(?!) the associativity in the past few years, which if anything just makes things even more confusing.

[moebrowne]

This changed 6 years ago in 8.0, a major version change.

Once again showing how out of date peoples hate for PHP is

[chuckadams]

Ternary was made non-associative in 8.0, so it requires parentheses. It will become right-associative in 9.0. But there’s not much use case left for nested ternaries in PHP since the `match` operator was added in 8.0.

[RobotToaster]

To be fair mine and a lot of people's reaction to getting bitten by this was completely avoiding ever using the ternary operator in PHP.

[guskel]

So it became sane as soon as late 2020.