Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:46821 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3567 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2010 18:09:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jan 2010 18:09:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com designates 67.139.134.202 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:4490] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5C/1F-29385-C65F55B4 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:09:49 -0500 Received: (qmail 9863 invoked by uid 98); 19 Jan 2010 18:09:48 -0000 Received: from localhost by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-2.05 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/10312. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.070048 secs); 19 Jan 2010 18:09:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jan 2010 18:09:48 -0000 Received: from webmail (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:09:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3719.98.193.1263924588.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <20100119111936.GP3978@phcomp.co.uk> References: <4B54FC87.8070106@zend.com> <4B558DBF.6020100@cschneid.com> <0F4BC787-02F1-4C31-AD8A-0BD867769A7B@gmail.com> <20100119111936.GP3978@phcomp.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:09:48 -0600 (CST) To: "Alexey Zakhlestin" , "Christian Schneider" , "'PHP Internals'" User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] function call chaining From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Tue, January 19, 2010 5:19 am, Alain Williams wrote: > I have seen the argument that things like this will confuse novice > programmers, > maybe: but would they ever try to type something like that ? Yes, because they see the experts typing something like that. What's more, they have to READ something typed like that. If you think you get a lot of forum activity over why it doesn't work, consider what you would see on the other side of that coin: All the non-programmers coding in PHP who ask what it does. -- Some people ask for gifts here. I just want you to buy an Indie CD for yourself: http://cdbaby.com/search/from/lynch