RE: [PHP-DEV] RFC - MACRO

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mathias Grimm [mailto:mathiasgrimm@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:12 AM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] RFC - MACRO > > I want to request a C/C++ feature that i think is good. > > MACRO > > <?php > MACRO('PF','private function _'); > MACRO('SCOPE_CLASS','class MyProject_'); > > class UseMacro > { > PF preSave($object) > { > //... > } > > } > > SCOPE_CLASS Internal > { > > } > > I don know if there is a RFC for this feature. Although I am a C developer and use macros I think it'd be horrible to add them to PHP (+ it's been discussed and rejected many times in the past). Macros make it very hard for a third party person to read your code + goes directly against the verbosity spirit we've always had in the PHP project. Forget also the fact that it creates a lot of problems with solutions such as debuggers. I suggest if it's something you really feel you need then implement it externally to PHP as part of your build and deployment environment. There are a variety of templating/pre-processor solutions out there including the C-compiler tools themselves. Andi