On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 17:40 +1300, German Geek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Micah Gersten <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > German Geek wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Micah Gersten <micah@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > <mailto:micah@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > > > Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 00:16 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: > > > > > > > >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 23:23 +0000, ceo@xxxxxxxxx > > > <mailto:ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>>> Presumable, the EXISTS sub-query can be optimized sometimes > > > to just stop processing the sub-query and kick things back out to > > > the outer query. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> IN has to process them all and find them all. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>>> > > > >>> Don't forget the special case use as well: > > > >>> > > > >>> IF NOT EXISTS `universe` THEN bigbang() > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> Ash > > > >>> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk <http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> any chance of writing the implementation of that bigbang() > > > function? > > > >> > > > > > > > > If nothing exists and a universe is created via a big bang... > > > does it > > > > make a sound? Can we realistically call it a big bang if it > > > doesn't make > > > > a sound? Couldn't we call it the big light show? But then > > > again... if > > > > nothing exists and a universe is created via a big light show... > > > does it > > > > matter? Can it be perceived? Is this just a proverbial > > > pandrödinger's > > > > box? You can't implement the bigbang() function if you don't exist. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rob. > > > > > > > The function doesn't say who's doing the creating, it just checks for > > > the existence of the universe. > > > > > > Lol, I agree, the function bigbang() doesn't need to be implemented > > > (or it could be empty if it needs to be there for this line to work), > > > because by definition, the universe must exist, if this statement is > > > to exist. > > Who says this statement is run in this universe? Who says it's not for > > a simulator? > > > > > > Guys, I think this is taking it a bit far... > > > > You new here? ;) > > > Yep. I'm new here. :) > > OK, to take this even further then... > How about a start of a high level function: > > function bigbang() { > $elementsNecessaryForBang = God::createElements(); // have to get it from > somewhere, don't know how to get this just yet > $particleSimulator = new ParticleSimulator($elementsNecessaryForBang); > $particleSimulator->start(); > // ... > return $universe; > } > > Oh, I forgot. We're writing this in plain MySQL? Don't know how to even > start this... :) I guess this is a PHP List, so I guess it's safe to use > PHP, no? Sorry for stealing the thread... Wow! You really are new around here... the following is a better solution: <?php require_once( 'reality.php' ); $stick = new Stick(); $drum = new Drum(); $bigbang = $stick->whack( $drum ); for( ; ; ) { $bigbang->expand(); } ?> Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
