Hello George, Friday, July 9, 2004, 8:56:15 PM, you wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Marc Richards wrote: >>> Are you saying PHP will never introduce an operator that doesn't >>> already >>> exist in a large number of other languages? >> >> That's a good rule. Over the 10 years of PHP development we have >> followed >> this with the only exception being the === operators for checking for >> "really equal". > And you could make a case for similar operators existing in perl (eq vs > ==, which are of course slightly different). Looking at the confusion we started by simply having a different order in evaluating the ternary operator i won't recomment starting to introduce new operators like ?: that would definitively confuse everybody and tend to erroneous code because it is too easy to misuse them by mistake....so lets keep with that rule. marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
