#27109 [Opn->WFx]: magic string concat

ID: 27109 Updated by: derick@php.net -Summary: [request] magic string concat Reported By: xuefer at 21cn dot com -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: * PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-01-31 (dev) New Comment: We love our dots, it's the language and so it will be. We're not going to change this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-31 13:33:29] xuefer at 21cn dot com 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27109&edit=1