Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21017 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 53730 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Dec 2005 00:23:12 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 53711 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2005 00:23:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Dec 2005 00:23:12 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.184.195 wproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([64.233.184.195:56333] helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id E4/1B-14828-F65E0934 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:23:12 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so224375wra for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:23:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nk2+HmUNWstVQbA00d8MTmkHZuxxT3/mJ6VjD2oPCghBb/eeoI7vjZd2kQbfy0yrWh+nFWKL2eWR69/M9g06Nfm5wVYWK+WcpWDMzpOpTHmr9nL9Hh1We2DcPr6WhVKlCur5jXfLU2WSY/h/AlOF/CN27+Z3A/7WpCvvVdNjgz8= Received: by 10.54.142.10 with SMTP id p10mr1115348wrd; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.107.15 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:23:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57792e850512021623j105d13e0ic348421a21abf68@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:23:07 -0800 To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <5B0322C0-997F-451A-8056-01147DEB0991@gravitonic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3F.25.11378.CEA42834@pb1.pair.com> <018d01c5eeec$23949600$5c8be5a9@ohr.berkeley.edu> <497935ba0511211511l5867410dk577deb60b998a069@mail.gmail.com> <497935ba0511211512k4c8e1cb4r89cf1ffcd4ab7829@mail.gmail.com> <438254E6.2050903@prohost.org> <497935ba0511211609n675a3c3yf03cb5e5e97bb5bf@mail.gmail.com> <5B0322C0-997F-451A-8056-01147DEB0991@gravitonic.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Syntax in PHP 6 From: iamstever@gmail.com (steve) On 11/21/05, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Maybe you should start a new language. With sensible function names, > and anything else that you may desire. I hear it's a good exercise. Been there, done that. Both using yacc/lex and doing recursive decent (which was faster -- at the time). I don't know why people just don't create a string class (for example) with static functions that give them the function names and parameter order they want. Actually, I'm surprised there isn't such a thing in PEAR already. -steve--