On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Marc Richards wrote: > Does it? There are other similar constructs that don't e.g. +=, $a ? $b > : $c, .=;
These have roots in other languages and as such have a familiarity to them. ?: would be a brand new operator nobody has seen before and one that looks a lot like the ternary operator which everyone knows about. > I think that part of the reason that these things are so terse is > because if would defeat the whole point to use a function name; The aim > is to be concise. No, the aim is not conciseness. That has never been PHP's goal. The aim is clarity. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
