PHP 6.0 Wishlist
| From: | Jordan Miller | Date: | Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:38:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | PHP 6.0 Wishlist | ||
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I just joined this list and caught this thread (no suggestions like this in the archive)...
For v6.0... how about allowing comparison operator expressions like the following:
if (2 < $x <= 4) {}
I prefer this concise way as it is common for mathematics expressions, and much easier to grasp physically on first glance. From what I can tell, this expression can currently only be written as:
if ( $x > 2 && $x <= 4) {}
Would adding this syntax to PHP be incredibly difficult or lead to performance slowdowns?
I think I remember reading that PHP always evaluates expressions from right to left, so I guess there may be a considerable codebase change required. Maybe there could be a default function workaround for this or some other way to automagically process these more concise expressions without too much of a slowdown?? Just curious.
Jordan