Re: [PATCH] Making in_array a language operator

2011/11/13 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 03:10 +0100, Johannes Schlüter wrote: >> For 5.5 I also have doubts whether it's worth the additional keyword and >> opcode. Yes it will, most likely, but this is an extension to the >> grammar ... > > I meanwhile did a quick check on google codesearch. I found a few cases > where "in" was used as property or method name. Notable cases there are > zeta components and doctrine2 which this patch would break. Right, that would be a BC break for method names. Properties work just fine (and now already with for, while &co if you try). > For converting functions into opcodes - aren't there more relevant > candidates? strlen() or such come to mind. And no, I won't make them > constructs either. There is an idea to have pseudo object for common types, where these functions would be callable without actually having an instance. No implementation yet so far. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org