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Request #20516 RFC: C-style string concatenation
Submitted: 2002-11-20 07:30 UTC Modified: 2002-11-20 08:07 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 0 (0.0%)
From: dw-php dot net at botanicus dot net Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-11-20 07:30 UTC] dw-php dot net at botanicus dot net 
Hi there,

I was wondering if it would be at all possible to get ANSI C / ISO C99-style string literal concatenation added?

The PHP syntax already borrows so much from C that this seems to be a worthy addition. It would also make it much easier for wrapping ugly SQL for pretty source files.

String literal concatenation being:

$a =   "MY NAME IS "
"DAVE WILSON" /* some comment tokens
that get ignored */ "WAS HERE" // 2002
"2003";


Or, more useful:

"SELECT id,x,y,z FROM tbl " /* grab required cols */
"WHERE y = %d"  /* for our y coordinate. */

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 [2002-11-20 07:38 UTC] sander@php.net 
Why do you want that? PHP really doesn't need that, since we have the dot as string concatenation operator. What's wrong with it?
"FOO" . /* weird comment if you like that */ "BAR"
 [2002-11-20 08:02 UTC] dw-php dot net at botanicus dot net 
Conformity, ease of porting, the usual reasons why a change might be made. IMHO, the dot operator is ugly and I hate using it, simply because of the colour it appears as in vim :).

If no-one wants to hack this in, can I be pointed toward the correct place in the source so I may? Thanks.
 [2002-11-20 08:07 UTC] derick@php.net 
http://cvs.php.net/co.php/Zend/zend_language_parser.y?login=2&r=1.23
and
http://cvs.php.net/co.php/Zend/zend_language_scanner.l?login=2&r=1.60

but dont count on it getting this included.

Derick
 
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