Description:
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hello

it's not a bug, but an UNREASONABLE peculiarity of PHP (all versions).
the peculiarity may be a reason of "strange" behavior of a script and errors may take a lot of time for their fixing.

i say about precedence of some operators. let's take a look on precedence of bitwise operator "&" and comparison one "==".

let me need to find out is number of the lowest significant bits in $x is less then 8 or not.
as it can be done in other programming languages, i use the following construction:

if ($x&0x7f==$x) {ok} else {not ok}

if you try to use such a construction in a script you would be amazed, because $x&0x7f==$x IS TRUE IF AND ONLY IF $x IS EQUAL TO 0x7f!
if you try to use 0x7f&$x==$x instead of original condition, you would be amazed twice, because 0x7f&$x==$x IS ALWAYS TRUE.

and what the reason of this tricks? the reason is the precedence of "&" is LOWER than one of "==".
so, i HAVE to write ($x&0x7f)==$x or (0x7f&$x)==$x, because
taking into account the precedence one obtains:

$x&0x7f==$x <=> $x&(0x7f==$x)
0x7f&$x==$x <=> 0x7f&($x==$x)

such behavior is not common in programming and in mathematics. and even if i aware about the precedence, i can make a mistake "on the fly" in expression (do you like to print additional parenthesis? ;)).

so, what's the reason of such particuliarly in PHP?
may be it needs to be removed from the following releases?

Reproduce code:
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<?
  $x = 0x76;
  echo $x&0x7f==$x;
  echo "\n";
  echo 0x7f&$x==$x;
?>

Expected result:
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1
1

Actual result:
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0
1