Re: constant scalar expressions

Good answer - thanks :-) On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Rasmus Schultz <me@rasmus-schultz.com> > wrote: > > Did you consider supporting non-scalar values? > > Did you consider permitting e.g. function calls in declarations? > > And finally, and perhaps most importantly, did you consider lazy (late, > > on-access) evaluation of expressions? > > > Short answer to this is that those types of cases could (and perhaps > should) be covered by property getter/setters. We *could* bake it > into the syntax, and it would certainly make the syntax for PHP > scripts look cleaner, but as a first step focusing on constant scalars > only allows us to take a step forward and reevaluate to see where we > are after a version. > > -Sara >