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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:32:25 +0200 (EET)
Reply-To: Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>
To: Jason Garber <jason@ionzoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Macros
From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)


     Once we get GOTO and the ?: operator, we don't need no stinking macros! :)

     --Jani


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Jason Garber wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>

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