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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:57:30 +0100
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To: Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: shorthand object property setting syntax.
From: php@stefan-marr.de (Stefan Marr)

>> However, the proposal reminds me of Pascal's 'with'-construct:
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>> new(pointertob);
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>> with pointertob^ do
>> begin
>>  a :=3D 10;
>>  b :=3D 'A';
>>  c :=3D nil
>> end;
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> Can one do something like "b :=3D this.a"?  This sounds like a huge =
can of
> worms to me.
Ehm, I don't see what might be problematic with "b :=3D this.a".

However, I did not mean to propose it, I just thought I mention it.
Think there was also a similar discussion (with respect to something =
similar to 'with') a while back.

But since PHP requires you to write your '$this->' everywhere, such a =
construct does not feel very much inline with this rest of the language =
which is explicit.

Back to the original proposal, from my point of view, source code is =
meant to be read, and repetition is handled easily by the human brain, a =
bit of alignment with whitespace and voil=E0... =20


Best regards
Stefan

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