Re: [RFC] Interval Comparison

On 11/11/2016 6:03 PM, David Walker wrote: > I took a quick stab at implementing, and had something working for constant > expressions, but handling something akin to: > > $a = 2; > if (1 < $a++ < 3) { > ... > } > > Is a bit awkward in our expansions of : if (1 < $a++ && $a++ < 3). Seems > as if when processing the chain here, you'd need to see if the left node > has a child, and somehow ensure you get the evaluated value somehow, to > override the "left" node. So logically expansion of the above would be if > (1 < $a++ && 3 < 3). I think the same would have too somehow handle > (either by syntax error or something) that if a non-numeric value creeps > into a binary-op-compare we error like: if (1 < (2==3) < 3). > > Just some food for thought > -- > Dave > Nice :) Personally I would make all of these situations parse errors. These are hard to read and understand code constructs, why would we want to support them in the first place? -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger