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To: Antoine Delignat-Lavaud <antoine.delignat-lavaud@ens-cachan.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Making in_array a language operator
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 02:37 +0100, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud wrote:
> 
> if(($v1=="a1" || $v=="a2" || ...) && ($v2=="b1" || $v2=="b2" ||...)
> && ...)

This could also  be written as
  if (in_array($v1, ["a1", "a2", ...]) && in_array($v2m ["b1", "b2", ...]))

> by replacing them with:
> 
> if($v1 in ["a1","a2",...] && $v2 in ["b1","b2",...]) 

I would certainly not add it to 5.4.

For 5.5 I also have doubts whether it's worth the additional keyword and
opcode. Yes it will, most likely, but this is an extension to the
grammar ...

johannes