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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 10:39:57 +0700
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To: tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Add `final class Vector` to PHP
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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Hi Tyson,

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021, 10:21 AM tyson andre <tysonandre775@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> This proposal already has a fixed-sized type - that type is `mixed` (or
> `zval` internally), like ArrayObject, WeakMap, etc. already have in their
> values.
> (Similar to how basic Java collections (e.g. ArrayList<String>=E2=80=8B) =
are all
> collections of `Object` after generic type erasure.)
>


Thanks for the clarification.

So the name of this proposal is misleading. They are not vector.

I am not sure php needs another type of fixed array at this stage. So -1
here overall.

best,
Pierre

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