Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:51766
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.210.170 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Status: bad
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date
         :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type;
        b=LHosu3ugJhekzGDb4uN2Gcug0fpHLjMnGcm23nkbBU1ufWoUdqIeVXnbzChPlQSSp1
         TG/SN6nyiv6BVYFXWlDl49uBe4BzmEBBbloKPv5Tm0W0E6x0KUTm0sjWPfEYDfCqIPfQ
         WlTdyGxb8jSYraCE1PtUorIyuYCOepe4IzJxE=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: tyra3l@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4D94948E.5000901@divbyzero.net>
References: <AANLkTinWgyueX7FJKdHASzOV0X0L480jnjd=o=mrG2kZ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D92CC38.5040900@toolpark.com>
	<AANLkTimpmjOQcqLcfH23Zrt6EULw6PAJvQ1_cvAP7ON=@mail.gmail.com>
	<AANLkTinp1wnOu6te6MjoONcz_1AVobc7pwFwvbY8mkTB@mail.gmail.com>
	<004301cbeee8$e54a8280$afdf8780$@com>
	<AANLkTi=MTU=AM-FeX1ZbTrrEDdNCPWNvcppWrxxbWGcg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D9387BE.4030808@divbyzero.net>
	<E6786318-197A-4C8A-AAE2-A24DADDA7BA2@roshambo.org>
	<4D94948E.5000901@divbyzero.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:52:40 +0200
Message-ID: <AANLkTimW4L5BpcNKJtoW-7roYkpoi94FTYJiO7pHJhTJ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net>
Cc: Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org>, Dan Birken <birken@gmail.com>, internals@lists.php.net
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5430d8af72150049fc871fe
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding a more logical string slicing function to PHP
From: info@tyrael.hu (Ferenc Kovacs)

--bcaec5430d8af72150049fc871fe
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Martin Jansen <martin@divbyzero.net> wrote:

> On 31.03.11 16:41, Philip Olson wrote:
> > On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Martin Jansen wrote:
> >> Both str_startswith and str_endswith have been suggested in the past:
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?t=121647230100001&r=1&w=2
> >>
> >> I recently got around to merge them into a largely unfinished extension
> >> so they are archived somewhere safe: https://github.com/mj/php-ext-str
> >
> > I see str_contains() on the TODO there. I've always wanted in_string() so
> am glad to see a similar item. Using strpos() for this task feels dirty,
> much like using arrpos() for arrays would ;)
>
> >From time to time I have wondered if it made sense to add a new operator
> "in" that works on variables of different type and could replace
> in_string/str_contains:
>
> if ("a" in "abc") { ... }
>
> if ("a" in array("a", "b", "c")) { ... }
>
> if ("a" in $obj) { /* true if $obj->__contains("a") returned true */ }
>
> I suspect there is a massive potential for WTF issues in there and that
> most people would hate this feature.  Which is why I am only thinking
> out loud here -- I have zero intentions to suggest this as a future
> enhancement for PHP.  ;-)
>
> - Martin
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>
would we have mb_in also? :)

Tyrael

--bcaec5430d8af72150049fc871fe--