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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:45:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation ideas for PHP 8
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 23.01.2019 at 18:30, Rowan Collins wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 17:25, Girgias <george.banyard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I understand the rationale for functional programming, may I ask
>> in your opinion should PHP have built-in functions for arithmetic
>> operations so that it can be used in such a way without needing userland
>> implementations?
> 
> There was a proposal a while ago (Sara Golemon maybe? Or Andrea Faulds?
> Seems like the kind of thing either of them might work on...) to add a
> syntax for using any operator as a callable. I don't think it got beyond a
> thought experiment, but it's an interesting concept, and would
> theoretically remove the need for some of this duplicate functionality.

See <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_functions> (which is still “under
discussion”, by the way).

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Christoph M. Becker