Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
| From: | Christoph M. Becker | Date: | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:45:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecation ideas for PHP 8 | ||
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On 23.01.2019 at 18:30, Rowan Collins wrote:
> 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.
See <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_functions>
(which is still “under
discussion”, by the way).
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Christoph M. Becker