Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11010 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1874 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Jul 2004 00:50:24 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 1849 invoked by uid 1007); 9 Jul 2004 00:50:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20040709005023.1847.qmail@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net, Marc Richards Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:50:22 +0200 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20040707203931.02fa6200@mail.ionzoft.com> <40ED64A0.7050305@cschneid.com> <20040708151952.92187.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708215205.23281.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708222005.4329.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <20040708233326.73283.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Lines: 18 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Posted-By: 217.235.238.134 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] what happened to that new isset() like language From: schlueter@phpbar.de (Johannes Schlueter) Marc Richards wrote: > They won't. Not until they hear about it or read about it. But that is > true whether it is a function or and operator. Making it a function > won't make everyone magically cogniscent of it. Of course it will be > important to make it easy to search for information about it on PHP.net, > which includes allowing people to search for ?: and providing a courtesy > link from the ternary operator section. And if they read about it they start searching. And many people know how to search for http://php.net/functionname, which works well, but searching for http://php.net/?: would result in the index.php. So the user needs to search through the manual and without knowing the name of the operator it's hard for to seperate between "? :" and "?:". I'd like the ?:-Syntax very much but I'm not sure wether it realy fits into PHP - PHP is not Perl ;-) johannes