Lack of parenthesis and the fact that EVERY project out there takes advantage of this affordance. So BC *nightmare*.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Ryan McCue <li...@rotorised.com> wrote: > Johannes Schlüter wrote: > > So, unfortunately no, language constructs have different semantics which > > we can't emulate inside function semantics (well ok, it is software, so > > it is thinkable .. but nobody,yet, came up with a robust patch which > > doesn't cause maintenance *and* performance penalty) > > Is there a reason that echo/print couldn't be implemented as functions > with some sort of backwards compatibility layer? isset/etc make sense to > be language constructs, but I can't think of any reason echo/print need > to be. > > -- > Ryan McCue > <http://ryanmccue.info/> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
