Posted by Steve on 10/02/07 17:16

"Mtr" <Mtr@no.spam> wrote in message
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> 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?

if they built the sun and said it was blue, yes, i'd tend to believe
them...rather than saying 'i know more than they, the sun is green'.

> The fact is that no operation is being performed, and so "->" is not an
> operator in the conventioned use of the term.

get a clue!

> 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.

oh, so now you have several bitches you'd like to whine about!

> So now they
> have to use the clunky '->' where they should be using a dot.

"should'?!!! dumbass, that's straight out of c++. get your fucking head
outta VB.

> It still just
> denotes that a method or variable belongs to the object.

hint, quit whining and read the FM.

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