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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:23:24 -0700
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To: Leigh <leight@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Loop... or...
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 September 2014 23:06, Leigh <leight@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lots to think about here, if it's at all viable this will need it's
>> own separate RFC, it's a much more invasive change, but definitely a
>> great idea.
>
> NikiC and Bob have convinced me to carry on with the original
> proposal, and bring up Saras ideas as another RFC afterwards, so the
> full impact of converting loops to expressions can be judged on its
> own merits. It is BC with this RFC, so no problem there.
>
Agreed.   If we do find a nice way to make loops into expressions and
make default blocks work with that, then the explicit LOOP/OR syntax
can vanish and work implicitly with the expression approach.

-Sara