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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:39:51 +0100
To: "Ionut Gabriel Stan" <ionut.g.stan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Iteration tools
From: troelskn@gmail.com ("troels knak-nielsen")

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ionut Gabriel Stan
<ionut.g.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I see there's nobody else that would like this but it's ok, at least
> now we have namespaces so that
> I don't have to come up with ugly names like my_map() for these kind of
> helper functions.

I like the proposal. With the advent of first-class functions,
functional-style iteration is becoming possible. An abstraction that
hides away the difference between arrays and traversables would help
further in this direction. And this is something that is much better
implemented in the language, than in userland, to ensure
interoperability.

--
troels