Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:6349 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 63448 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Dec 2003 04:25:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 63369 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2003 04:25:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alanathome.ossc.com.hk) (202.81.246.113) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2003 04:25:29 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.40] (helo=akbkhome.com ident=alan) by alanathome.ossc.com.hk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUISU-0006Dz-3y; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:29:50 +0800 Message-ID: <3FD7F232.4040104@akbkhome.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:27:30 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030909 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason davidson CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <3FD7E62C.9020007@zworg.com> In-Reply-To: <3FD7E62C.9020007@zworg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] With End With From: alan@akbkhome.com (Alan Knowles) for the life of me I cant remember the date of it, (or even find it on google/zend.com/marc.theaimsgroup... etc.) from what i remember, it had a number of flaws. a) ambiguaty of the source of a variable or method, (as it was originally illustrated as poluting the local variable namespace) b) the same (or similar) result, could easily be done using aliases, eg. $a = &$this->xxx->yyyy $a->doThis(); rather than with ($this->xxx->yyy) { doThis(); } Regards Alan jason davidson wrote: > If someone could help me find the discusions on the topic, i would > greatly appreciate it. I searched and have not found anything yet. Or > if someone could explain why the idea was rejected. > Thanks > jason > > -- Can you help out? Need Consulting Services or Know of a Job? http://www.akbkhome.com