On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:02, David Sklar wrote: > On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:18 AM, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Right, and as George's example already works I see no point in adding > > more 'magic' operators that look like Perl to me. > > What about a match operator? I realize that similar functionality can be > achieved with preg_match(), but we could duplicate all operators with > functions: if (equals($foo,$bar)) {} instead of if ($foo == bar). Obviously, > testing equality is a frequent enough operation that it would be clumsy to > not have an == operator. In the same vein, matching against a regex seems > like a more frequent operation in web programming than, say bitshifting with > assignment ala the <<= and >>= operators. Which is why I think it could be a > useful addition.
Bitshifting being a commonly used C operator makes conversion of C programs to PHP simplistic. IMHO PHP isn't PERL and if I wanted cryptic non standard operators I'd be using PERL. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
