On 3/12/08, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You make it sound like this stuff is new or something. Obviously to some it is. Just in this thread we had a person claim to only know PHP, C, and Java, none of which have any functional language capabilities built in. > Lisp and other > functional languages have had it for decades. Even JavaScript has it. I'm sorry, I lost context, what missing PHP language feature are you referring to as "it"? > Your analogy is also way off... ask any person without legs if they > think about walking. Here, let me dumb-it-down a bit: PHP doesn't have much in the way of meta-programming capabilities. Therefore one would not find it a natural thought to do much meta-programming in PHP, unless one already knew of a language where such support exists. A different example using the same logic: My Mustang doesn't have 4-wheel drive so I don't often think much about taking it through the creeks and woods by my house like my old man and I do in his Bronco that does have 4-wheel drive. A person who has never climbed a really steep hill or ran through a waist-high creek in a 4-wheel drive auto might think such a thing impossible if they were unaware of 4-wheel drive. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
