Martin Alterisio wrote:
I still don't see why this functionality should be a native operator of
the language.
It doesn't seem natural that ++ operator "understands" that the string
could be an enumeration of some kind. I believe that such things should
be left to the coder who knows what the string is really representing,
not to the language.
That's the strictly typed argument. If you always force people to
declare their types and you never automatically convert them, then you
have a strictly typed language. You have the same thing happening for
something like:
echo "2"+"3";
In a strictly typed language that would spew an error. In a loosely
typed language like PHP you get 5
And yes, I agree that ++ on strings is getting near the edge of that,
but there has to be an edge somewhere and not everyone is going to agree
on exactly where to draw the line.
-Rasmus
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