At 11:50 AM 12/8/2001 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
>Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >
> > > >Guys, relax.  No, this does not work.  The only reason your example 
> works
> > > >is because min() is a built-in PHP function already.
> > > >
> > >
> > >   man now i am crushed... i knew it wouldn't work - that's why i never
> > > tried.  i was so amazed when i tried that i must have been blind to 
> the fact
> > > that i chose a bad example...
> > >
> > >   has anyone every thought of adding such a thing?  the dev team can 
> surely
> > > appreciate it because #defined macros are all over the php source.
> >
> > You can use create_function() to do something like that.  See
> > http://php.net/create_function
> >
> > Or simply make a function.  The point of macros in a language like C is
> > that they are processed before compilation and a real function call is
> > avoided.  This does not apply to a non-compiled language like PHP so there
> > is no reason not to simply create a PHP-level function if you want
> > something like that.
>
>You mean a non-precompiled language like PHP.  Technically speaking, PHP
>has been compiling for a while.

I wouldn't call PHP a compiled language. It's basically still an 
interpreter like Perl & Python.

Andi


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