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if you ever had the misfortune of seeing the code for the parser and lexer of earlier versions of PHP youd see that it wasnt due to parsing simplicity but rathe
by sirsinsalot 4y ago
if you ever had the misfortune of seeing the code for the parser and lexer of earlier versions of PHP youd see that it wasnt due to parsing simplicity but rather the author making poor syntax decisions due to a lack of understanding.
Then being walled in by backwards compatibility
- colejohnson66 4y agoInteresting, but not surprising for a language where functions were "hashed" as their identifier's string length. Do you have a link?
- sirsinsalot 4y agoI do not, it'll be in whatever version control php is in though I'm sure. Another absolute horror parser was the wikipedia wikitext parser. An ambiguous hand written mess of epic disgust.