[PHP-DEV] RE : [PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-22 Thread P
Exact. IMO too :), the main benefits are : - To keep tracks. Everyday, on this list, we see messages like 'I know we already talked about this (but not who and when)', 'We agreed on this (but cannot remember how and why...)', 'this question was already discussed', ... There's no way for a new

Re: [PHP-DEV] RE : [PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-22 Thread Richard Quadling
For an outsider, an RFC would be a great mechanism. This will let us users see what future development is planned without having to be part of the inner group. Considering how much is done in IRC and therefore not visible to a lot of people after the fact, a formalized process would actually give

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-15 Thread Mathias Bank
Richard Lynch schrieb: On Mon, November 13, 2006 4:42 am, Mathias Bank wrote: As you see, with this macro functions, it could be achieved any individual syntax. It would be a pleasure, if php could support it. It could shorten a lot of code. It sounds like you could submit a patch and get it i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, November 13, 2006 4:42 am, Mathias Bank wrote: > As you see, with this macro functions, it could be achieved any > individual syntax. It would be a pleasure, if php could support it. It > could shorten a lot of code. It sounds like you could submit a patch and get it in... :-) While you a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-14 Thread Matt Sicker
On Monday 13 November 2006 04:42, Mathias Bank wrote: > Hallo, > > you know, that there was often a discussion about a "ifsetor" > function. I want to generalize this discussion. If you know LISP, > there is a fantastic macro function which allows you to generate own > syntax (not a c macro functio

[PHP-DEV] Feature-Request - Macros

2006-11-13 Thread Mathias Bank
Hallo, you know, that there was often a discussion about a "ifsetor" function. I want to generalize this discussion. If you know LISP, there is a fantastic macro function which allows you to generate own syntax (not a c macro function, which is really bad). It would be fantastic, if php could