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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:51:52 -0500
Reply-To: Jason Garber <jason@ionzoft.com>
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Subject: PHP Macros
From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber)

Hello Internals,

  Remember the ifsetor() discussion?  There were many, many people for
  it, and many people that did not see the point.  To this day, it's
  not been allowed into the source tree, and I don't see any way to
  change that.  So...

  Please consider (some form of) this if it's possible:


  define_macro square(x)
  {
     ((x) * (x))
  }

  define_macro ifsetor(x, y)
  {
     (isset(x) ? x : y)
  }

  $n = square($n);
  

  If the parser/compiler sees one of these, then it will add it to
  it's list of "macros", and when it runs into the usage of one, it
  will do a little token-replacing before compiling it...
  
  Is it technically doable?

  Thanks guys.

-- 
Best regards,
 Jason Garber                      mailto:jason@ionzoft.com