Req #70087 [Com]: Better string interpolation

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70087&edit=1 ID: 70087 Comment by: vovan-ve at yandex dot ru Reported by: mario dot dweller at seznam dot cz Summary: Better string interpolation Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Strings related PHP Version: 7.0.0beta1 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: A good idea is needed here. Supposed syntax "{$(expr)}" is complicated in reading and writing. It would be great feature. Take a look at JavaScript's template strings: ```js const s = foolorem ${bar(x)} ipsum ${2 + 3} dolor; ``` Many other progressive languages has unified interpolation syntax for arbitrary expression. I'm observing your RFC's <https://wiki.php.net/rfc> for more than 10 years. Lot's of good things were declined like it was just conservative. Any good feature will be declined and forgotten when you hit your own internal implementation problems and conservative views. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-07-17 16:58:32] chrisdmiddleton at gmail dot com Never mind my previous question about function calls in variable interpolation. To answer my own question, I see that it is documented in the manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-07-17 16:51:47] chrisdmiddleton at gmail dot com I would also really like this feature, thanks Mario for bringing it up. In Mario's proposal, we would have to have a BC break, but here's a way that we could do it without a BC break. The following currently gives a parse error: echo "{$(time())}"; (Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting variable ...) So it could be implemented that arbitrary expressions would be allowed inside parentheses like that. On a side note, I've found some very odd behavior in PHP 5.6.10, where I can use a function call inside variable interpolation, at least in a somewhat limited way. Is this documented behavior?? <?php function foo () { echo "really"; } echo "${foo()}"; // prints "really" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-07-16 11:52:57] mario dot dweller at seznam dot cz Description: ------------ There is a support for variable interpolation in strings like $string = "$a/$b $c"; or $string = "{$a}/{$b} {$c}"; But it is not usable for functions. $string = "Length: {strlen($a)}"; I guess that's why many programmers prefer using sprintf instead because it is more readable than concatenation using dots. I personally use sprintf almost everywhere because the code looks more consistent then. Since there are many cool new features in PHP7, why not to add this basic one? I guess it would need a special syntax because of BC, or not? But there are currently two ways to achieve the same thing: $string = "Hello {$a}"; $string = "Hello ${a}"; The second one looks unnaturally, most prefer the first way. For example it could be forbidden in favor of this: $string = "Length is ${strlen(a)}"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70087&edit=1