#27109 [NEW]: [request] magic string concat

From: xuefer at 21cn dot com Operating system: * PHP version: 5CVS-2004-01-31 (dev) PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: [request] magic string concat Description: ------------ as we know, in C/C++, const string will be concat magically char *str = "FOO" "BAR"; but in php, we used dot '.' to concat, which is widely used as object.method() method.property in other languages, there isn't much symbols on our keyboard, this make php have to use $this->foo() $this->bar for objects many and many times we type "-" shift + ">" :( i suggest that php should be able to do: $hello = "hell" "o"; $hello = $hello " wo"; // same as $hello = $hello . " wo"; $hello .= "rld"; // still, and ever supported space between expressions means string-concat $query = "select abc" " from table" " where ..."; we don't have to: $query = "select abc" . " from table" . " where ..."; or: $query = "select abc" . " from table" . " where ..."; (hard to modify) or: $query = "select abc from table where ..."; (ugly) php is for web, web is text, text is string hope one day all code is written with out using dot concat (.) so we can deprecate it, and then disabled, and we can $phpers.smile(";)") -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27109&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27109&r=float