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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Introducing "Array Of" RFC
From: pjsturgeon@gmail.com (Philip Sturgeon)

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Lazare Inepologlou <linepogl@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>
>
> 2014/1/15 Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> This is my first RFC so give me a little leeway if I get things wrong.
>>
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrayof
>>
>> The implementation has been written by Joe Watkins, and I will be
>> handling the RFC process for him.
>>
>> It is aimed at PHP 5.6, and so far the release managers seem to be ok
>> with the idea of this potentially being merged after the alpha
>> release, so this should not be considered an issue.
>>
>> Everything is open for discussion, especially the current error
>> messages. They are not perfect, so let us know if you have better
>> ideas.
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> this is a nice proposal.
>
> I hope that it is not limited to arrays only... All tranversables should =
be
> acceptable (as they are acceptable for variadiac functions). Otherwise th=
is
> will lead to unnecessary (and costly) convertions.
>
>
> Lazare INEPOLOGLOU
> Ing=E9nieur Logiciel
>
>
>
>

Currently function (array Foo) is ONLY arrays, not number of
interfaces will change that.

This RFC keeps to the same logic, but a later RFC could (and IMO
absolutely should) address this. I would suggest that this is a
different issue, and should be kept separate.