On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 13:46 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > > > > But why does the ($r=!$r) ternary condition work?. (I understand > > that it DOES but not WHY.) > [/snip] > > Check this out - > http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.assignment.php > > It says the value of the assignment is the value assigned, so maybe > assignments to anything other than 0 (or false) return true while > assignments to 0 (or false) return false.
The value of the expression is the value assigned. Since the ! operator will always return a boolean then the assigned value is going to be a boolean. So $r will always contain a boolean for the purposes of the ternary operation. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
