ID: 30845
Comment by: jed at jed dot bz
Reported By: phpbugs at eire dot ca
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: FreeBSD
PHP Version: 5.0.2
New Comment:
The ellipsis operator is unnecessary due to the existence of the
range() function.
true == 5 in range(1, 10);
The in operator, in my opinion, is unnecessary and is only syntactic
sugar due to the existence of in_array(). I don't like S.S. operators
(I opposed instanceof et. al., as well as "and" as an alternative to
&&). In the long run, syntactic sugar makes code more difficult to read
and just adds more passes in the parser. PHP at its root isn't BASIC.
It's nice functionality, I agree, but there's a lot more that could be
done to the language to make it more like VB. And that's not a good
path to start down.
Previous Comments:
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[2004-11-19 22:29:03] phpbugs at eire dot ca
Description:
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Some languages such as SQL or (cough)Visual Basic(cough) include an
"in" operator to test for inclusion in a given range of values.
SQL uses an explicit list of values like so:
SELECT s1 FROM t1 WHERE s1 IN (SELECT s1 FROM t2);
Or an even simpler example:
SELECT 'foo' IN ('foo','bar','foobar');
Visual Basic makes it even better by adding the ellipsis operator:
if iBar in (25..40) then
This would be a great addition to PHP, with or without the ellipsis
operator. It would be especially useful for switch statements. And if
you could pass it an array, I'd be in heaven!
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