Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68261 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 48902 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2013 07:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jul 2013 07:54:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain sugarcrm.com designates 108.166.43.75 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 108.166.43.75 smtp75.ord1c.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [108.166.43.75] ([108.166.43.75:37713] helo=smtp75.ord1c.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id EB/F0-13120-3424AE15 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:54:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 764411E855A; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:54:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp2.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: smalyshev-AT-sugarcrm.com) with ESMTPSA id 2481F1E84CE; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:54:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51EA4240.7030707@sugarcrm.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:54:40 -0700 Organization: SugarCRM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan McCue CC: "internals@lists.php.net" References: <1374256806.3946.101.camel@guybrush> <51EA0F30.3010609@rotorised.com> In-Reply-To: <51EA0F30.3010609@rotorised.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Language constructs and callability From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev) Hi! > Is there a reason that echo/print couldn't be implemented as functions > with some sort of backwards compatibility layer? isset/etc make sense to Yes, the reason is not fixing what isn't broken :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227