Re: Re: PHP & XML

At 11:50 AM 12/8/2001 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Guys, relax. No, this does not work. The only reason your example

works

is because min() is a built-in PHP function already.

man now i am crushed... i knew it wouldn't work - that's why i never tried. i was so amazed when i tried that i must have been blind to

the fact

that i chose a bad example... has anyone every thought of adding such a thing? the dev team can

surely

appreciate it because #defined macros are all over the php source.

You can use create_function() to do something like that. See http://php.net/create_function Or simply make a function. The point of macros in a language like C is that they are processed before compilation and a real function call is avoided. This does not apply to a non-compiled language like PHP so there is no reason not to simply create a PHP-level function if you want something like that. You mean a non-precompiled language like PHP. Technically speaking, PHP has been compiling for a while.

I wouldn't call PHP a compiled language. It's basically still an interpreter like Perl & Python. Andi