On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Stas Malyshev
wrote:
> I find it very hard to accept this particular argument.
Honestly, I find it hard it too. The reason I started this is that I tried
to do something like $foo instanceof $bar->getClassName() and
I got a syntax error. It looks very straightfor
Hi!
> This is exactly what I'm doing right now, requiring the expression to
> always be enclosed in parenthesis. I think it's way better to be able to
> do this instead of creating temporary variables just to assign a class
Why? What's so bad in variables? It doesn't cost that much and makes you
Hi!
> Also one thing not mentioned in the initial letter - this will also allow
> you to use expressions for new operator in the same way: `new
> (str_replace('/', '\\', $classPath))()` - just an example.
OK, if we apply it consistently - i.e. say anywhere that we allow
literal or ${variable-
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> By merging the symbol tables, you could reference classes like constants
> (perhaps it’d return some sort of ReflectionClass-like thing?):
>
> $x = SomeClass;
> $foo = new $x;
>
> Currently, because SomeClass above would resolve to a
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 11:43, Daniel Ribeiro wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
>> Perhaps, dare I say it, we should merge the constant and class namespaces
>> in PHP7? Those are perhaps the least likely to conflict. It’d mean we could
>> handle instanceof expressio
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> Perhaps, dare I say it, we should merge the constant and class namespaces
> in PHP7? Those are perhaps the least likely to conflict. It’d mean we could
> handle instanceof expressions, and we wouldn’t need to use ::class.
Hi Andrea!
I'm no
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 09:29, Daniel Ribeiro wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Stas Malyshev
> wrote:
>
>> You could of course require the expression to always be enclosed in (),
>> but that produces weird syntax where some forms of instanceof work
>> without () and some only with (). Gi
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Stas Malyshev
wrote:
> You could of course require the expression to always be enclosed in (),
> but that produces weird syntax where some forms of instanceof work
> without () and some only with (). Given that you can easily assign your
> value to a variable, is i
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:01:52 +0400, Stas Malyshev
wrote:
Hi!
What I want to implement is the ability to allow arbitrary expressions
on
the second operand, so instead of having to write something like this:
I'm afraid there's a problem with this. Arbitrary expressions include
constants,
Hi!
> What I want to implement is the ability to allow arbitrary expressions on
> the second operand, so instead of having to write something like this:
I'm afraid there's a problem with this. Arbitrary expressions include
constants, right? So what this means:
var_dump($foo instanceof Bar);
is
Good morning, internals!
I would like to present to you an idea that I have for a syntax improvement
for PHP.
The basic idea is to allow arbitrary expressions when using the instanceof
operator. Currently, the second operand can only be a constant reference or
a string:
$foo instanceof stdClass;
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