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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:03:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Working With Substrings
From: flexjoly@gmail.com (Lydia de Jongh)

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Hi,
Very interesting topic! On which I have NO experience =F0=9F=99=88



Op wo 15 feb. 2023 om 08:02 schreef Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>=
:

> On 15 February 2023 05:18:50 GMT, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >My instinct was that it could just be a built-in class, with an internal
> pointer to a zend_string that's completely invisible to userland. Somethi=
ng
> like how the SimpleXML and DOM objects just point into a libxml parse
> result.
>
> To make this a bit more concrete, what I was picturing was that instead o=
f
> this example:
>
> str_splice($this->pagemap[$pagepos][0], $x2, $size2, $data, $x, $size);
>
> You would have something like this:
>
> // Wrap an existing zend_string in an object
> $destBuffer =3D Buffer:: fromString($this->pagemap[$pagepos][0]);
> // Similar, but also track start and end offsets
> $sourceBuffer =3D Buffer::fromSubString($data, $x, $size);
> // Now do the actual memory copy
> $destBuffer->splice($x2, $size2, $sourceBuffer);
>
>
>

In some other languages every variable IS an object..... by default.

As far as I understand, the code above is meant as internal.
But what if any variable is a small object.
Has this been ever considered? Or would it use too much performance?

$oString =3D 'my text';

$oString->toUpper();

echo $oString;  // 'MY TEXT'



Greetz, Lydia

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