On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, mathieu.suen <mathieu.s...@easyflirt.com> wrote: > You are right I am using the wrong language but i can't help. > Is not me who make the decision. So for want of anything better, > why not try to improve the tool.
Improve it how exactly? I can't see how one can improve this part while keeping it consistent and/or backward compatible. > > Peter Lind wrote: >> >> Have you considered that perhaps you're trying to use the wrong >> language for what you're doing? PHP does what it does now consistently >> (in this regard) - what you're suggesting breaks that consistency. To >> gain what, exactly? >> >> On 19 March 2010 17:07, mathieu.suen <mathieu.s...@easyflirt.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Right I could work around the issue with the return by reference without >>> any >>> problem. >>> I am still thinking that if you try to write a meta-circular interpreter >>> you >>> gonna work very hard >>> to make this subtleties worked. And according to "Shriram Krishnamurthi" >>> in >>> his textbook PLAI: >>> >>> " a truly powerful language is one that makes it easy to write its >>> meta-circular interpreter." >>> >>> -- Mathieu Suen >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- Mathieu Suen > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
