On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:30, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 17:25, Girgias <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I understand the rationale for functional programming, may I ask > > in your opinion should PHP have built-in functions for arithmetic > > operations so that it can be used in such a way without needing userland > > implementations? > > > > There was a proposal a while ago (Sara Golemon maybe? Or Andrea Faulds? > Seems like the kind of thing either of them might work on...) to add a > syntax for using any operator as a callable. I don't think it got beyond a > thought experiment, but it's an interesting concept, and would > theoretically remove the need for some of this duplicate functionality. > Indeed seems like Andrea Faulds did publish an RFC which is in the Under discussion section: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_functions Best regards George P. Banyard
