Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:6230 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 29853 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Dec 2003 13:42:47 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 29770 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 13:42:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO is.magroup.ru) (213.147.47.162) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2003 13:42:47 -0000 Received: from grp-dovgal.MEDIA-ARTS.RU ([192.168.3.226]) by is.magroup.ru with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:42:06 +0300 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:42:04 +0300 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20031205164204.07f65d3c.tony2001@phpclub.net> In-Reply-To: <006f01c3bb34$efb22970$8802a8c0@obsidian> References: <20031205163044.130c88ed.tony2001@phpclub.net> <006f01c3bb34$efb22970$8802a8c0@obsidian> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7cvs5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2003 13:42:06.0140 (UTC) FILETIME=[927667C0:01C3BB35] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] for oci8 and some improvement proposals From: tony2001@phpclub.net (Antony Dovgal) On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:37:29 -0000 "Wez Furlong" wrote: > Would it make sense to expose this stuff as a stream using > the streams API, so the user would be able to fread($lob) etc? yes, I've been thinking about it as an option. I just want to hear a principal answer about this stuff - what do maintainers and others think about it. > You could still add functions for those things that aren't > covered already by streams (the erase() call). > > One of the benefits would be avoiding adding more functions to > the global namespace, and also side stepping any naming convention > wars that might arise. --- WBR, Antony Dovgal aka tony2001 tony2001@phpclub.net