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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:28:21 -0500
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To: Mathias Grimm <mathiasgrimm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - MACRO
From: nicobn@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicolas_A=2E_B=E9rard=2DNault?=)

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This has been brought up countless times and has always been rejected
(browse the archives if you aren't convinced).

Anyhow, I just hope I never have to maintain code you write in this fashion=
.
Pre-compilation macros are very out of character in the dynamic languages
paradigm and I doubt they'd be useful in any case. The examples you gave
convinced me once and for all that this is a very=B2 bad idea. There's a
reason why no modern language uses three letters tokens for common
statements, I'll let you guess what it is.

Anyhow, merry Christmas.

P.S.: SCOPE_CLASS ? Have you ever heard of namespaces ?

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mathias Grimm <mathiasgrimm@gmail.com>wro=
te:

> I want to request a C/C++ feature that i think is good.
>
> MACRO
>
> <?php
> MACRO('PF','private function _');
> MACRO('SCOPE_CLASS','class MyProject_');
>
> class UseMacro
> {
>    PF preSave($object)
>    {
>       //...
>    }
>
> }
>
> SCOPE_CLASS Internal
> {
>
> }
>
> I don know if there is a RFC for this feature.
>



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Nicolas A. B=E9rard-Nault (nicobn@gmail.com)

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