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Subject: Preprocessor?
From: john@coggeshall.org ("John Coggeshall")
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I've been thinking about this for awhile, and seeing these patches about
'const' at compile-time I thought I would throw this in here now...

Instead of patching the engine for these constant values, wouldn't these
things be better served in a module? I've already worked on a basic
module that hooks into zend_compile() and does pre-processing before
giving the script over to PHP... Hence you'd have something identical to
C's preprocessing.

<?php

#define MYVAR 1;

Echo MYVAR;

?>

If there is interest, I'd like to be able to include this module in PHP5
once its been cleaned up...

John


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Vandomelen [mailto:chrisv@revhosting.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:45 PM
>To: internals@lists.php.net
>Subject: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] 'const' in global scope
>
>
>In tune with the current 'const' patches by Sterling, and 
>because I found it useful (and more consistent than the 
>original behaviour IMHO), attached is a patch which implements 
>compile-time constants in the global scope:
>
><?php
>
>const something = 2, something_else = 4;
>
>?>
>
>The behaviour is the same as define(), only implemented in the 
>compiler instead of as a function.
>
>Chris
>