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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Any interest in a list type?
From: matthewmatthew@gmail.com (Matthew Brown)

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> This is the *design* process for a language, and it's important...
Stepping back to reconsider how collections work generally, and how we can
improve them in a graceful way that leads to a clean end-state, would be
very valuable.

Though you have much more experience with internals than I do, I think that
building a consensus around a bold new vision for PHP collections would be
a near-Sisyphean task.

Adding a list/vector type would be a much smaller, more easily definable
task =E2=80=93 it was one of the first new types that Hack added, and by al=
l
accounts they're pretty happy with that decision.

> Should we also be adding a dedicated dictionary type as well?

Maybe? I think there'd be less to gain from a performance standpoint
though, so I didn't want to lump that in with any list proposal and risk
derailment.

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