Re: constant scalar expressions

From: Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:54:42 +0000
Subject: Re: constant scalar expressions
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Good answer - thanks :-)



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Sara Golemon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Rasmus Schultz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Did you consider supporting non-scalar values?
> > Did you consider permitting e.g. function calls in declarations?
> > And finally, and perhaps most importantly, did you consider lazy (late,
> > on-access) evaluation of expressions?
> >
> Short answer to this is that those types of cases could (and perhaps
> should) be covered by property getter/setters.  We *could* bake it
> into the syntax, and it would certainly make the syntax for PHP
> scripts look cleaner, but as a first step focusing on constant scalars
> only allows us to take a step forward and reevaluate to see where we
> are after a version.
>
> -Sara
>


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