Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
| From: | Rowan Collins | Date: | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:30:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8 | ||
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 17:25, Girgias <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the rationale for functional programming, may I ask
> in your opinion should PHP have built-in functions for arithmetic
> operations so that it can be used in such a way without needing userland
> implementations?
>
There was a proposal a while ago (Sara Golemon maybe? Or Andrea Faulds?
Seems like the kind of thing either of them might work on...) to add a
syntax for using any operator as a callable. I don't think it got beyond a
thought experiment, but it's an interesting concept, and would
theoretically remove the need for some of this duplicate functionality.
Regards,
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Rowan Collins
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