Re: Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

From: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:48:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP
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Hello Gwynne, Monday, March 19, 2007, 3:13:28 AM, you wrote: > On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Wez Furlong wrote: >> Your nitpicking happens to be wrong ;-) >> >> sizeof("string constant") is the "same" as strlen("string >> constant") >> +1, but is resolved at compile time, so we use sizeof("string >> constant")-1 to get a compile time evaluated strlen(). This trick >> is used throughout the PHP internals. > Ah. I've never seen it used that way before; I apologize for my > ignorance :). In my experience, sizeof() on a character constant > would evaluate as sizeof( const char * const ). Actually it is not a "const char *" here. Instead the language generates a "const char[]" which works asexpected. Best regards, Marcus

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