Re: [PHP-DEV] Keyword proposal: in

2002-02-06 Thread Markus Fischer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:25:15PM +0100, Alex Kiesel wrote : > I'd like to propose a new keyword: in. It should work like the > SQL-in-expression. > > For example you have a variable $val and want to test whether it > contains e.g. 1 or 2 or 99. > > At the moment I would choose between on of t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Keyword proposal: in

2002-02-06 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Hi, On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:25:15 +0100 Alex Kiesel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, at least I find it quite elegant. :) it is indeed, but it does not represent the "PHP-way-of-handling" [tm] things. If we have "in", we also can have $foo = [0..99] as a shorthand notation for arrays. just my

[PHP-DEV] Keyword proposal: in

2002-02-06 Thread Alex Kiesel
Hi, I'd like to propose a new keyword: in. It should work like the SQL-in-expression. For example you have a variable $val and want to test whether it contains e.g. 1 or 2 or 99. At the moment I would choose between on of the following code-constructs: 1.) if ($var == 1 || $var == 2 ||