PHP 7.4/8.0: new RemovedTernaryAssociativity sniff by jrfnl · Pull Request #810 · PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility

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... to determine whether a ternary is a short ternary, i.e. without the middle.

This method will :fingers_crossed: also be introduced into PHPCS itself in version 3.5.0.

Upstream, the method will be pulled with unit tests. As the intention is for this method to primarily be hosted within PHPCS, it seemed redundant to duplicate those here.

Refs:
* squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer#2456

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Jun 2, 2019

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PHP 7.4 deprecates nesting of ternaries without explicit use of parentheses.
PHP 8.0 will remove the (left-)associativity of ternaries completely. This will become a compile-time error.

Refs:
* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ternary_associativity
* php/php-src@09ea55c (PHP 7.4 deprecation)
* https://gist.github.com/nikic/b6214f87b0e4a7c6fe26919ac849194f

Includes unit tests.

To test this sniff, I have run it over some 200.000 files. While I can't say for sure whether there were any missed problem cases (false negatives), all the issues detected by the sniff were actual cases of nested ternaries which would become problematic in PHP 7.4/8.0.

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