Re: Assignment operator proposal

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:36:26AM +0200, Bogdan Stancescu wrote: > Hi all! > > I'd like to hear from a single one of you who isn't tired of code similar to i'm solving this with some little knowledge of shortcuts evaluation ... > <? > if (!$whatever) { > $whatever=something; > } > ?> (($whatever) || ($whatever = something)); > or else > > <? > if ($whatever) > { > $somethingelse=$whatever; > } > ?> (($whatever) && ($somethingelse=$whatever)); > How about a new asignment operator which would shut up all those Python > enthusiasts - let's say the new operator would be caret - and we could > replace the first example with sounds interesting. IMHO you have to rewrite some stuff in the php language parser so it detects these expressions and generates an if-else-tree ... ~-n -- Enrico Weigelt == meTUX IT services software development, IT service, internet security solutions www: http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: contact@metux.de cellphone: +49 174 7066481