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Re: Operator precedence [message #185050 is a reply to message #185049] Tue, 25 February 2014 03:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> writes:
>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> writes:
>>>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> > […] Expressions are built from operators, but is ',' an operator in
>>>> > [PHP?
>>>> > It appears in the operator precedence table but it isn't an operator
>>>> > in an sense that would normally be understood by someone familiar with
>>>> > these terms.
>>>>
>>>> ECMAScript has a “Comma Operator”, too.
>>>
>>> But my point was the PHP doesn't have one --
>>
>> But it does:
>>
>> for ($i = 0, $j = 42; $i < $j; ++$i);
>
> But try this:
>
> for (($i = 0, $j = 42); $i < $j; ++$i);

Bogus example.

> In general, putting an expression in parentheses does not stop it being
> an expression.
>
> The permission to use ',' in a for statement is special
> syntax: it's not part of the syntax for an expression. To give another
> example, if the ',' in a for statement built an expression you should be
> able to change:
>
> for ($i = 0; f($1), $i < 10; $i++) { ...; }
>
> into
>
> $i = 0;
> while (f($1), $i < 10) { ...; $i++; }
>
> but you can't, because while takes an expression as the condition, and
> f($i), $i < 10 is not an expression!

Irrelevant.

>>> not in any normal sense of the word.
>>
>> Please define what you consider to be an operator in a “normal sense of
>> the word”.
>
> It's a syntactic symbol that can be used to combine simpler expressions
> in such a way that the result is also, syntactically, an expression.

A very narrow definition of “operator”.


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