ID: 27109
Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Summary: [request] magic string concat
Reported By: xuefer at 21cn dot com
-Status: Open
+Status: Wont fix
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-01-31 (dev)
New Comment:
We love our dots, it's the language and so it will be. We're not going
to change this.
Previous Comments:
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[2004-01-31 13:33:29] xuefer at 21cn dot com
Description:
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as we know, in C/C++, const string will be concat magically
char *str = "FOO" "BAR";
but in php, we used dot '.' to concat, which is widely used as
object.method() method.property in other languages, there isn't much
symbols on our keyboard, this make php have to use $this->foo()
$this->bar for objects
many and many times we type "-" shift + ">" :(
i suggest that php should be able to do:
$hello = "hell" "o";
$hello = $hello " wo"; // same as $hello = $hello . " wo";
$hello .= "rld"; // still, and ever supported
space between expressions means string-concat
$query = "select abc"
" from table"
" where ...";
we don't have to:
$query = "select abc"
. " from table"
. " where ...";
or:
$query = "select abc" .
" from table" .
" where ...";
(hard to modify)
or:
$query = "select abc
from table
where ...";
(ugly)
php is for web, web is text, text is string
hope one day all code is written with out using dot concat (.) so we
can deprecate it, and then disabled, and we can $phpers.smile(";)")
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