Re: Re: rfc: pow-operator

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Galen Wright-Watson <ww.galen@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Tjerk Meesters > <tjerk.meesters@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Tjerk Meesters < > tjerk.meesters@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Pierre, > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > >> [...] > > >> Should it not be possible to do something similar than isset? Changing > > >> pow from a function to operator? The big advantage is that any > > >> existing code will benefit from it without code changes. > > >> > > > > > > Speeding up existing code sounds like a very good idea actually :) I'll > > > look into this. > > > > > > > Following up on this; I've turned pow() into a language construct now. > > [...] > > > Does that mean that 'pow', like 'empty' and 'isset', can't > be passed as a > callback? > That sure is a good reason not to remove it from ext/standard/math.c :) this currently works: $ sapi/cli/php -r "echo call_user_func('pow', 2, 3);" 8 -- -- Tjerk