On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Rowan Collins <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 21:04, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>
>> with the current assert implementation the assert is a function, which
>> eval()-s the expression argument, but it will return early if asserts are
>> disabled(http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/ext/standard/assert.c#149)
>> with the proposed assert (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/expectations) the
>> assert will be changed into a language construct, which has the advantage
>> that we can use expressions instead of passing a string for evaluation
>> without additional cost, also executing that is cheaper than a function
>> call, and when the assertions are disabled they will be almost zero-cost..
>>
>>
> Thanks for that. As posted elsewhere, I think the RFC could make that
> clearer.
>
> So the relevance to this discussion is that you could already do a version
> check with an assert(), and the proposed version of assert() would be as
> efficient as the proposed declare(); does that sound right?
>
>
I would wait for Yasuo to answer, but that my understanding, yes.
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