Re: Re: Generators in PHP

On 25/07/12 16:43, Alex Aulbach wrote:

2012/7/25 Andrew Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>:

We, of course, should try to avoid user confusion if it will be a big issue. But I don't see any here.

I said it's small and the fix is small also. Big issue, big fix, small issue, small fix. Understand?

Also, 20 years experience does not necessarily a good programmer make, nor an expert in other programmers.

It's not sufficient but neccessary. 1. It's not a small fix, you're introducing a whole new function syntax for generators, which I think is needless duplication. Plus it's more work, we now have to make special functions that can ONLY be used as generators and check at compile-time that they are generators and not functions.

2. It's not necessary. There are great programmers who have only been at it for 10 or 5 years. And there are terrible programmers who have been at it for decades. Also, please let us not devolve into asinine elitism. I would like to hope this mailing list's members are better than that. -- Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/