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From: davidkmuir@gmail.com (David Muir)

On 29/06/12 14:06, minwei zhou wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi internals!
>>
>> Python and several other languages include support for list
>> comprehensions and generator expressions and I'd like to see something
> why PHP should going to like other language?

Pretty much everything in PHP was "borrowed" from another language. This
is nothing new.


>> So, what do you think? Do we want something like this in PHP?
> NO!!!
>
> PHP is not python  please do not make PHP worse
>
> if you like python just go to use python
>

Try again, this time with less knee-jerk and more brain:

Why is this a bad feature?
How will it make PHP worse?
What is so bad about it that it outweigh the benefits?
Is it the syntax you don't like, or the concept?

Cheers,
David