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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:23:48 +0100
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To: "mathieu.suen" <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Assign array with __get
From: colder@php.net (Etienne Kneuss)

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, mathieu.suen
<mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote:
> You are right I am using the wrong language but i can't help.
> Is not me who make the decision. So for want of anything better,
> why not try to improve the tool.

Improve it how exactly? I can't see how one can improve this part
while keeping it consistent and/or backward compatible.

>
> Peter Lind wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered that perhaps you're trying to use the wrong
>> language for what you're doing? PHP does what it does now consistently
>> (in this regard) - what you're suggesting breaks that consistency. To
>> gain what, exactly?
>>
>> On 19 March 2010 17:07, mathieu.suen <mathieu.suen@easyflirt.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Right I could work around the issue with the return by reference without
>>> any
>>> problem.
>>> I am still thinking that if you try to write a meta-circular interpreter
>>> you
>>> gonna work very hard
>>> to make this subtleties worked. And according to "Shriram Krishnamurthi"
>>> in
>>> his textbook PLAI:
>>>
>>> " a truly powerful language is one that makes it easy to write its
>>> meta-circular interpreter."
>>>
>>> -- Mathieu Suen
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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> -- Mathieu Suen
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