Re: [PHP-DEV] call_builtin_function_array() possible?

[Cynic]

Well, this would be probably completely useless (at least I 
can't think of a meaningful use of this right now), but... is 
there a reason this can't be implemented in PHP? I know, time 
is a very precious commodity, and I wouldn't ask (or suggest) 
for an implementation of this if it would require extra work 
besides making pre- and post- increment / decrement in one 
statement. But if allowing ++$i++ (which I definitely consider 
useful) makes ++$i-- possible without additional effort, why 
disable it? It's possible to write completely useless junk 
software without this feature too.

Lack of knowledge of C prevents me from going to try and do 
this myself.


At 21:51 9.1. 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote the following:
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Cynic wrote:
 
 At 21:16 9.1. 2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote the following:
 What color is the sky on your planet? :)
 
 I don't know, haven't checked for some time now. :)
 But seriously: I'm not familiar with C, nor the way this stuff
 is implemented in PHP, however, whether the sky here is blue or
 pink doesn't mean I think this wouldn't be useful.

and what's next?

++$i-- ???

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[PHP-DEV] Re: ++$i++ (was Re: [PHP-DEV] call_builtin_function_array() possible?)

[Andrei Zmievski]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Cynic wrote:
 I recently needed to process every other element of a 
 numerically indexed array. 
 for( $i = 0 ; $i  count( $a ) ; $x = $a[ ++$i++ ] ) 
 would have saved me one statement. I had to use 
 for( $i = 0 ; $i  count( $a ) ; $x = $a[ $i++ ] , $i++ ) 
 I know, this is an 'issue' so tiny I can laugh at it, but 
 anyway...

You know, this is not C, you are not going to save 0.2 microseconds of
execution time by writing obscure code like this. Even in C this is not
encouraged.

-Andrei

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