Req #40296 [Com]: "unless" control structure

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40296&edit=1 ID: 40296 Comment by: charlie at gorichanaz dot com Reported by: mail at tobyinkster dot co dot uk Summary: "unless" control structure Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues Operating System: All PHP Version: 5.2.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Well, I maintain I would love to see this control structure implemented. I understand a non English speaker might not have the same level of understanding of the word "unless" as a native English speaker, but you can say the same of any other keyword in PHP or any other programming language written in English, and I fail to see how that is a valid argument against its inclusion. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-05-16 19:45:59] freshtuneage at gmail dot com Ha ha, PHP lusers. "We don't want this feature because it is too complicated for our training wheel-restricted users." What a bunch of simplistic dolts. When you're ready to move forward into the brave new world of the 1990's, let the rest of us know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-02-20 18:36:04] email at philsturgeon dot co dot uk It looks like this conversation dried up after the rather out-of-context confusion over unless somehow meaning "more". Can we move past that please, as it's a ridiculous non-issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-30 15:09:00] email at philsturgeon dot co dot uk Rasmus: toby was not suggesting that "uniqid" is the opposite of "iqid", he is saying that you can have "un" at the start of a function or keyword without it automatically flipping the meaning of the next few letters and confusing people - as you suggested in your comment yesterday. In neither situation does "un" switch the meaning of the following letters, so if it is ok for one function/keyword it should be ok for another, right? I don't want to argue, I just want to make sure people are clear. I would hate to see this conversation derailed by confusion or people loudly agreeing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-30 15:00:31] rasmus@php.net Now you are just being silly. "uniqid" is "unique id" from the latin root "uni" meaning one or singular. Makes perfect sense . It isn't "un" anything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-07-30 13:19:47] mail at tobyinkster dot co dot uk FWIW, while Perl does allow unless (foo) { bar } else { baz } I've never seen it in the wild. I've only ever seen unless used without any trailing else conditions. (And although Perl syntax allows else following unless, it explicitly disallows elsif following unless.) I'd be perfectly happy for PHP to forbid both elseif and else after unless. > It also isn't a very common feature in other languages Latin had "nisi". Modern languages derived from Latin are all the poorer for having lost this concept. > It is an odd word that essentially means not-if even though > it logically should be equivalent to "more" as in the > opposite of "more" would be "less" and sticking "un" in > front of it suddenly completely changes the meaning entirely. By that logic, uniqid() should return the opposite of the iqid() function. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40296 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40296&edit=1