increment

Note

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Does the PHP style behaviour when doing an inc/dec operation

namespace HH\Lib\Legacy_FIXME;

function increment(
  mixed $value,
): dynamic;

Specially handles

1. incrementing null
2. inc/dec on empty and numeric strings

Parameters

• mixed $value

Returns

• dynamic