[PHP-DEV] Design of PHP, was: incrementing boolean values

2005-06-11 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2005-06-10 22:37, Marcus Boerger wrote: >Friday, June 10, 2005, 10:01:10 AM, you wrote: >> NULL comes from C I think and stands for an uninitialized >> pointer. There is no other way to empty a pointer except >> by using 'pointer=(*char)0;', using NULL is more clear. > >you shall never cast 0 to

Re: [PHP-DEV] incrementing boolean values

2005-06-10 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2005-06-06 08:37, Marcus Boerger wrote: >Sunday, June 5, 2005, 10:27:51 PM, you wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Johannes Schlueter wrote: >>> PHP is a weak-typed language which casts in the background as required - at >>> least most of the time. Yes, but I think it doesn't always do it in an intu

Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Array syntax

2003-11-05 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2003-11-05 09:59 +0100, Michael Walter wrote: >Very cool. > >How about supporting .. syntax, btw. as in [1..3] or ["a".."z"]? Might no be the >worth, just thinking out loud ;) I'm also in favor of a shorter notation for array() and list(). In fact this also helps to ease the problem I have wi

Re: [PHP-DEV] alternative for foreach ()

2003-10-20 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
At 2003-10-19 13:38 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: >> It wouldn't surprise me when the foreach syntax would be >> deprecated soon... > >If you're trying to humourous, I suggest that you first earn >some karma by contributing some real code to the PHP project. > >Your suggestion will not be implemented b

[PHP-DEV] alternative for foreach ()

2003-10-19 Thread Jaap van Ganswijk
Hi all, I'd like to propose an alternative for the foreach statement. Of course the construct: while (list($i,$d)=each($A)) is much harder to read than: foreach ($A as $i=>$d) and although I had doubts at first I'm currently rewriting all my old scripts to the new format whenever I encounter