On 23.01.2019 at 18:30, Rowan Collins 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.
See <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_functions> (which is still “under discussion”, by the way). -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
