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Re: Operator precedence [message #185080 is a reply to message #185078] Tue, 25 February 2014 21:29 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Christoph Michael Bec is currently offline  Christoph Michael Bec
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> writes:
>
>> If you want to produce a "rigorous standard", you are free to do
>> so. But standards are mainly for compiler developers; since there is
>> only one, I don't see a need for it (and I doubt ZEND would pay any
>> attention to it, anyway).
>
> I am sure they wouldn't. PHP is (to a first approximation) a single
> implementation language, and so the source code for that implementation
> is the final reference manual. That's how it is possible to be sure
> that, at the moment, you can't use ',' as an operator in a general
> expression. You can scan the grammar to see all the places where a
> comma is permitted and (pretty much) exactly what it does in all those
> cases.

There is at least one other important implementation of PHP, namely
HHVM[1], so I wouldn't call PHP a single implementation language. IMHO
it would be wise to specify the language formally, before
implementations may drift apart.

[1] <http://www.hhvm.com/blog/>

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Christoph M. Becker
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