Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14596 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12871 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Feb 2005 21:33:33 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12837 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2005 21:33:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 21:33:33 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.204.192.51 jdi.jdimedia.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([212.204.192.51:48569] helo=jdi.jdimedia.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD (r4105:4106)) with SMTP id E7/96-10528-CA892024 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:33:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j13LXUhY019844 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:33:30 +0100 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jdi.jdimedia.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17434-10-2 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:33:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j13LX6qH019729; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:33:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:33:07 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Terje_Sletteb=F8?= cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <011701c50a26$e9dc6fa0$0300000a@pc> Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050201111730.0299da70@localhost> <030301c50a15$024897b0$a900000a@adstate.local> <011701c50a26$e9dc6fa0$0300000a@pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdimedia.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, [iso-8859-1] Terje Sletteb=F8 wrote: > > TS>>As someone said, "Syntactic sugar matters, or we'd all be > > TS>>writing assembly code." :) > > > > Someone was wrong. There are syntax constructs that allow to reduce > > complexity of the code, and there are constructs that make the code hav= e > > the same complexity but look prettier to the eyes of the writer. > > It depends on how you define "complexity". Are the following two lines > equally complex to you: Let me be blunt as you;'e not giving up. We will not add it. Period, punt, punktum. This discussion is pointless - stop it! Derick --=20 Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org