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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:14:18 +0100
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To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Internal iteration API
From: ajfweb@googlemail.com (Andrew Faulds)

forwarding.

On 16 July 2012 02:11, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> I think you meant to send that to the list. :-)
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
>
> On 07/15/2012 08:07 PM, Andrew Faulds wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice if PHP 6 unified the semantics of
>> string/int/float/bool, arrays, and objects. For those first three you
>> could use immutable objects, and arrays are just objects implementing
>> ArrayAccess etc.
>>
>> On 16 July 2012 02:05, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/13/2012 07:35 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>> So, I've not been inside the engine so in practice this may make no
>>>>> sense at all, but what about looking at it the other way around?  Vis,
>>>>> instead of making objects more and more like arrays, make arrays an
>>>>> object that happens to implement ArrayAccess, Iterator, and whatever
>>>>
>>>> That'd be very nice idea if we were implementing new PHP. I think the
>>>> fact that arrays are not objects in PHP is a source of many problems.
>>>> However, right now it probably won't be possible to do it without
>>>> breaking BC in many places dealing with array copy/assignment/passing
>>>> semantics.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hm, valid point.  Is there no way that we could setup one object to pass
>>> "the old way"?  I suppose that would result in just as many special case
>>> exceptions...
>>>
>>> Perhaps that's a change that could be considered for whatever version
>>> does
>>> get called PHP 6?  PHP 5 changed the passing semantics for objects and we
>>> survived that, and it was a big boon to the language.  Perhaps that could
>>> be
>>> rolled into bigger changes later? (There's a PHP 6 thread right now I've
>>> not
>>> looked at yet...)
>>>
>>> --Larry Garfield
>>>
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>
>



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