On Mar 20, 2015, at 16:10, Sean Coates <s...@seancoates.com> wrote:
>> I posted four suggestions earlier,
>>
>> They were:
>>
>> @
>> &
>> *
>> ^
>>
>> My favourites are the asterisk or caret.
>
> That’s no different than `@` being invalid because it’s already in use.
>
> $ php -a
> Interactive shell
>
> php > define('a', 1);
> php > define('b', 2);
> php > echo @a . "\n";
> 1
> php > echo (a&b) . "\n";
> 0
> php > echo (a*b) . "\n";
> 2
> php > echo (a^b) . "\n";
> 3
> php >
>
> However: `☃` has a long history of being available to PHP.
>
> S
>
There’s no existing unary form of * and ^, though, so I think they’d both be
available in this context (^ is my preference).
Overloading unary & would probably also work in this context, but personally, I
think that & is too overused.
-John
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