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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for a new array function
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote on 09/02/2016 15:41:
> My personal take on this:
>
> Let's add just more 1 function over a 99999 function's array API, because I
> want to optimize 3 lines in my PHP code, and language lack of Generics
> while we still refuse to carefully think about a proper OO Collection API.

If you're going to go with hyperbole, let me put the opposite spin:

Let's improve a few details of our tried-and-tested implementation to 
make everyone's life easier, rather than embarking on a 10-year mission 
to radically change the entire language and deprecate every 
array-related piece of PHP code ever written in favour of a 
vaguely-imagined utopia whose parameters we haven't even defined yet.

I don't believe in either extreme. It's a simple proposal, which can be 
examined on its own merits.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]