Re: substr/array_slice in []

On 09/10/2007, Scott MacVicar <scott@macvicar.net> wrote: > Sure it works fine when it's been in the language for several years and > it's guaranteed to be available in the version provided by your hosting > company. > > In reality this isn't the case with PHP so everyone will end up using > the older method to support backwards compatibility or mixing it and > causing confusion. > > Scott OOI. If the ISP is not on the version which would have this particular "feature", how would I create a fallback solution for my clients? Something like PEAR's PHP Compat library. Very useful for giving support to newer functionality. I think I wouldn't bother with the new feature for a while. Maybe if it was major version only (V5 vs V6 is nice and clean, but V5.2.4 vs V5.2.5 is not so easy for some clients to understand that new functionality - rather than bug fixes - requires an upgrade). But having a working method already seems redundant, simply for syntactic sugar. > > Stefan Walk wrote: > > Antony Dovgal wrote: > >> Right, so let's force other people to learn crappy unreadable syntax > >> duplicating nice and clear function call > > Oddly, this "crappy unreadable syntax" doesn't lead to any confusion or > > complaints for newbies of languages like python or ruby, judging from > > the IRC channels. And it's also odd that ruby users, where String#[] is > > just an alias for String#slice, prefer this "crappy unreadable syntax" > > over a "nice and clear" method call. One starts to wonder ... > > > > Regards, > > Stefan -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"