Re: [RFC][Under discussion] Arbitrary string interpolation

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 12:49 AM Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 5:40 PM Tobias Nyholm <tobias.nyholm@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, 23:27 Ilija Tovilo, <tovilo.ilija@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone > >> > >> I'd like to start discussion on a new RFC for arbitrary string > >> interpolation. > >> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arbitrary_string_interpolation > >> > >> Let me know what you think. > > > > That is a cool idea. > > But I am not a big fan of having code in strings. > > Wouldn’t this open the door to all kinds of new attacks? > > Do you have an example of a new kind of attack this would allow? > The proposal doesn't enable interpolation of strings coming from > a database or user input - it only applies to string literals > directly in PHP code. > > Personally I'm really looking forward to having this functionality. > Just a couple days ago I wanted to call a function in an interpolated > string, and it was really annoying to have to wrap the function in a > closure in order to use it. > > If this RFC is accepted I'd be able to replace code like this: > > $name = "Theodore Brown"; > $strlen = fn(string $string): int => strlen($string); > echo "{$name} has a length of {$strlen($name)}."; > > with > > $name = "Theodore Brown"; > echo "{$name} has a length of {$:strlen($name)}."; > > Out of curiosity, why not: $name = "Theodore Brown"; echo "{$name} has a length of ".strlen($name)."."; or even $name = "Theodore Brown"; $len = strlen($name); echo "{$name} has a length of {$len}."; > > Sincerely, > > Theodore > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Chase Peeler chasepeeler@gmail.com