Weird Operators in Php
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The article explores unusual operators in PHP, sparking a discussion among developers about the language's quirks and their practical applications.
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donatj
3 months ago
2 repliesThis article should have like a [satire] or something attached. It's not super obvious until you get a little ways into this that this is a joke article and these are not real operators. Even then, it might not be obvious if you're not a PHP developer.
zzo38computer
3 months ago
The description is clearly a joke, although they are real operators (or strange uses of other operators). For example, -=- is subtraction assignment operator and negative operator together, which results in addition. However, the description of +-0-+ is wrong; it subtracts and does not add (this is what I thought, so I tried it to see and I am right and the article there is wrong).
w-ll
3 months ago
this is how they poison the vibe coders.
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