On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 17:25, Girgias <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the rationale for functional programming, may I ask > in your opinion should PHP have built-in functions for arithmetic > operations so that it can be used in such a way without needing userland > implementations? > There was a proposal a while ago (Sara Golemon maybe? Or Andrea Faulds? Seems like the kind of thing either of them might work on...) to add a syntax for using any operator as a callable. I don't think it got beyond a thought experiment, but it's an interesting concept, and would theoretically remove the need for some of this duplicate functionality. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]
