Re: . period for Class Syntax references

Thankyou for your quick replies Derick and Jason. I've taken a look at the link below - but I don't want to make any non-standard changes to the php engine - If it's working, don't 'fix' it! I want my code to be portable as well! I agree with Andrei Zmievski's point of view though. It's a shame it could not be implemented as a standard feature of php zend engine. Regards - Keith Roberts On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jason Sweat wrote: > To: "php@karsites.net" <php@karsites.net> > From: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] . period for Class Syntax references > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:09:54 +0000 (GMT), php@karsites.net > <php@karsites.net> wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I don't know if this has been implemented yet. > > > > Is it possible to make the '.' period character act > > place of the '->' character pair in class references, > > without conflicting with the '.' concatenation character? > > > > Possibly would have to implement the two styles of > > referencing to allow for backward compatibility? > > > > So, instead of writing: $this->my_var, one could then write > > $this.my_var, which would be alot more in common with other > > OOP languages. > > > > Maybe it's me, but I find it alot easier to read and > > pronounce '$this.my_var' == $this dot my_var, > > > > than something like > > > > '$this->my_var' == $this right-arrow my_var > > > > Or, even some other single character that may be used > > instead of the '->' pair. Any suggestions please? > > > > Regards - Keith Roberts > > Very dangerous to the long term maintainability of your code, but you > could look at: > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/ (near the bottom of the > page) > which links to > http://www.gravitonic.com/software/php/patches/ze2_concat_obj_op.diff.gz#ÏФ9p1 > Lfhª’N > > Regards, > Jason > http://blog.casey-sweat.us/ >