Re: [VOTE] [RFC] Alphanumeric Decrement

From: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:47:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] [RFC] Alphanumeric Decrement
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I would rather introduce a deprecation warning for decrementing (and incrementing) alphanumeric
strings. It’s just very bad behaviour and using chr() and ord() is not that hard :)

cu,
Lars

On 21 Jan 2014, at 21:16, Andrea Faulds <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 21/01/14 19:12, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
>> Added this RFC to keep track inconsistency.
>> 
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparison_inconsistency
>> 
>> Python/Ruby does not even have ++/--.
>> Mixing string and number raises type error for these languages.
>> Perl returns -1 for string-- always.
>> 
>> Although behavior became more consistent than now, but
>> I'm not sure if this change is good or not.
>> Keeping current behavior might be better.
> 
> This would also be my preferred approach. My RFC is one approach to resolving the
> inconsistency, but it's not what I really want, in truth. I'd like something like that
> you're proposing.
> 
> However I think type juggling is entirely misguided, and should we do it at all, int ->
> string and float -> string should be one-way conversions. Doing the reverse seems like a bad idea
> to me.
> 
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