2022/11/01

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 (#305)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday PHP namespace issue So, this is just kind of weird. I don't know yet if it's a bug or just something I've overlooked. Code: <?php namespace greenmine\config; use ferret\data as FD; class cServerSpec extends FD\cDBServerSpec {} class csDataSpec extends FD\csSpecs { static protected function GetSpec(string $sKey) : cServerSpec { Error: "Class ferret\data\FD\cDBServerSpec was requested but is neither loaded nor registered with the Class Loader." The major clue, I think, is that if I replace all the "FD" aliases with "\ferret\data", I get the exact same error -- which suggests that the problem is actually in some other file. ...yep, that's what it was! Data-Mangling Syntax How about something like... <array_var>(<var_for_key>,<var_for_val>){ ...code... } That means "for each element in <array_var>, assign the element's name to the variable <var_for_key> and value to <var_for_val> and then execute the code in the curly braces". Why not just <syntaxhighlight lang=php inline>foreach ($array_var as $key => $val) { ...code>... }</syntaxhighlight, as in PHP? I don't know, except that seems more complicated and less succinct. I want to keep the syntax (and parser code) simple.