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Posted by Steve on 10/02/07 21:26
"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Mtr wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:07:10 +0200, Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The object is dereferenced. From the manual:
>>>
>>> | An operator is something that you feed with one or more values (or
>>> | expressions, in programming jargon) which yields another value (so
>>> | that the construction itself becomes an expression).
>>
>> quoting the manual can only try to indicate what the authors of PHP say.
>> That is not any proof that it really is an operator. If they say that the
>> sun is blue, would you believe that, too?
>>
>> The fact is that no operation is being performed, and so "->" is not an
>> operator in the conventioned use of the term.
>>
>
> But there IS an operation being performed. You are dereferencing the
> object. And it has precedence (pretty high) and associativity (left to
> right).
>
>> In another language, Object.property would not indicate that the dot is
>> an
>> operator of any kind. The author(s) of PHP shot themselves in the foot
>> early on when they decided to use the the dot for string concatenation
>> rather than the same plus sign that nearly everybody else uses. So now
>> they
>> have to use the clunky '->' where they should be using a dot. It still
>> just
>> denotes that a method or variable belongs to the object.
>
> And in another language (specifically C++ or Java), the dot is an
> operator.
lol. i was going to ask him what term he gave a 'dot'...seems like 'denotes
that a method or variable belongs to the object' is a bit looong AND obtuse.
;^)
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