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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Adding `final class Deque` to PHP
From: pierre-php@processus.org (Pierre)

Le 20/09/2021 à 15:46, tyson andre a écrit :
> Hi Pierre,
> I'm not certain what you mean by "normalize".
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/normalize mentions

At least please try to make it serious, I think you understood what I 
meant. I'm in no place in arguing about technical details about how it 
should be implemented because the C language is not a place where I 
shine and I trust people like you for doing it best.

Nevertheless, my only point was, please put all data structures 
altogether, and please, just don't throw them in global namespace. 
Otherwise, as we said in french "ça va être un sacré bordel là dedans" 
(actually, it already is "un sacré bordel").

I'll let someone better in english than me translate, I'm not a native 
english speaker I could get it wrong.

> If you also mean all datastructure RFCs should be combined into a single RFC,
> I'd considered combining the Vector RFC with https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deque,
> but decided against combining the RFCs in this instance, because of:

No, not necessarily, they don't need to be in the same RFC, having one 
per data structure is probably the way to go you'll maximize chances 
that each one pass vote. Nevertheless, many RFC's exist and if there's 
many other to come, no matter in which order they'll happen and no 
matter at which pace, they still can be seen as a "whole", and a 
namespace is a in my opinion still a good idea.

I won't debate on the rest, because you are much more both involved and 
technically competent than I am, and as being someone stupid, I need 
things to be well-organized to find them easily, that's the only 
constructive argument I have to bring to this discussion.

Regards,

--

Pierre