>> However, the proposal reminds me of Pascal's 'with'-construct: >> >> new(pointertob); >> >> with pointertob^ do >> begin >> a := 10; >> b := 'A'; >> c := nil >> end; > > Can one do something like "b := this.a"? This sounds like a huge can of > worms to me. Ehm, I don't see what might be problematic with "b := this.a".
However, I did not mean to propose it, I just thought I mention it. Think there was also a similar discussion (with respect to something similar to 'with') a while back. But since PHP requires you to write your '$this->' everywhere, such a construct does not feel very much inline with this rest of the language which is explicit. Back to the original proposal, from my point of view, source code is meant to be read, and repetition is handled easily by the human brain, a bit of alignment with whitespace and voilà... Best regards Stefan > > - Martin > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 2974 Fax: +32 2 629 3525 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
