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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:08:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Feature request #38685: str_[i]replace(): Add
 support for (string needle, array replace)
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Fran=C3=A7ois Laupretre <francois@tekwire.n=
et> wrote:
>> De : Andrey Andreev [mailto:narf@devilix.net]
>>
>> I seem to have missed the new parameter (and constants) addition
>> during the discussion ... sorry to say this, but that one would
>> probably fail the RFC.
>
> Mmh... I don't like the idea of adding a parameter but several people arg=
ued that we needed a way to control looping behavior, as the original idea =
was to loop through the replace array.
>
> But I am still hesitating.
>
> Instead of voting on the RFC, please tell me which behavior you prefer :
>
> - an options argument to decide on the looping behavior,
> - always stopping replacements when the replace array is exhausted
> - always looping
>
> The other options are too exotic to become the default behavior.
>

Always looping, the other option is already covered by strtr().
I'd like control over the behavior too, but that just makes the API really =
ugly.

Cheers,
Andrey.