Re: [PHP-DEV] new operator and times() function [diffs] From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 04/25/00

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 thies <email protected> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:22:50PM +0500, Faisal Nasim wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just implemented the 'x' operator as in Perl, and a
> > corresponding times() function.
> >
> > print "blah" x 10;
>
> personally i don't think we need the 'x' operator in the
> language. but that's just my 2c.

I also don't think we should put this into the language. There is no
reason not to use str_repeat().
Do you really see a need for this to be in the language level?

Andi 

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