UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Order of Precedence Question

I guess I could have worded that better Let me try again.

$firstVar = -2 ** 4;
$secondVar = -(2 ** 4);

In both cases, 2 is taken to the 4th (not -2), and then the number is made negative. In these cases, the brackets dont matter only because the result is the same. Edit: remember "**" has a higher precedence than "-"

$thirdVar = (-2) ** 4;

In this case, it does what you would expect, returning a positive result. That is because the minus sign is already in the brackets, and it has to change it to a negative value.

Hey, no problem, Pyros. I never really put that much thought into it before, so this helps me out too

This message has been edited by SonnyBlack on September 25, 2000 at 07:02 PM