Preprocessor?

I've been thinking about this for awhile, and seeing these patches about 'const' at compile-time I thought I would throw this in here now... Instead of patching the engine for these constant values, wouldn't these things be better served in a module? I've already worked on a basic module that hooks into zend_compile() and does pre-processing before giving the script over to PHP... Hence you'd have something identical to C's preprocessing. <?php #define MYVAR 1; Echo MYVAR; ?> If there is interest, I'd like to be able to include this module in PHP5 once its been cleaned up... John -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- John Coggeshall john at coggeshall dot org http://www.coggeshall.org/ -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Vandomelen [mailto:chrisv@revhosting.com] >Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:45 PM >To: internals@lists.php.net >Subject: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] 'const' in global scope > > >In tune with the current 'const' patches by Sterling, and >because I found it useful (and more consistent than the >original behaviour IMHO), attached is a patch which implements >compile-time constants in the global scope: > ><?php > >const something = 2, something_else = 4; > >?> > >The behaviour is the same as define(), only implemented in the >compiler instead of as a function. > >Chris >