Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:98580 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 73848 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2017 01:14:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Mar 2017 01:14:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@golemon.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@golemon.com; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (pb1.pair.com: domain golemon.com does not designate 209.85.128.181 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@golemon.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.128.181 mail-wr0-f181.google.com Received: from [209.85.128.181] ([209.85.128.181:34068] helo=mail-wr0-f181.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7E/1A-38004-50A8CC85 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:14:46 -0500 Received: by mail-wr0-f181.google.com with SMTP id l37so61671030wrc.1 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:14:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=golemon-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=eD8G9LLY7sU+ufIV01IlYhB6uSUe1ckQrs+6eUT4QY4=; b=NcAQTsZflQuwSB0JkTMKvMFcC7I5zhKdTC/EUQzAf2D+6JtNdJMVrvZd6WvL8/DTVC vDT+Oz5bRr6k5HldJU3pYFvVyFc2YuOLkrl+IJ2TtSXLZZxAikOVJ/UVxDhHlu8ksxSc Nsjy/73hMvxLNv5BjtM5j14zEY895gXKJwdGLjlPKQZvPwvnBX8w3pKo+uMjeYoBWVIy V1avPuaCcSeXPhcAkNiTwbe3oFAtANn9gRleTWFBGEXfQCJp+ImxuZhGHpsZo1NqLcm8 8aC2Y9vJprL8C+Wzp1iG/obfHcnJBEyFb1qkK3kgBGB8BD9uU1uIok8Pk0Go5JhKIDdK Dl4Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=eD8G9LLY7sU+ufIV01IlYhB6uSUe1ckQrs+6eUT4QY4=; b=eS74FOywUaIITEhbcL49SpSEYfpfr43yJEUAek+Nd+kcToBRjuyV8mkrUOpeyiow3W kjvf2YaQeE29BQuvqnGgoUNWm7pnl0leWlSG8x8yyxl8uEm7+f3C6zFR+SZLOVOg3htV Y21v2I0rt358Q6esU3CX9g5HGwGZBA1PrwTsYhmNyBCZNyZocONFy506xel8+QEYGPdz 9yBRqrj/DWDEi/q3C0fZVNTc+y0s6fu+OzCyZl4EOPMdLgB9Gi/z2G6mCfALnon14HWA 4tTh8io/KFIimWC0EBdX+5kju4wroyG+Y1MbM51GzGrr1hH5Bn2JpeRE1s/QxHB/7CPw RbZw== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H0S+yeqzG+CU5gKXiOdjqtNban6oUw66RsMRP/KrogdP0mXHClyyxphJ8JZcZNRNzXraZ2M3tjWHeNccA== X-Received: by 10.223.152.239 with SMTP id w102mr16299892wrb.72.1489799682635; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:14:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: php@golemon.com Received: by 10.223.152.213 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:14:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [73.9.224.155] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:14:42 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: oeQGU3VRatPKXSeWujZS9fU-8Cw Message-ID: To: Niklas Keller Cc: PHP Internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let range() return a generator? From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon) On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Sara Golemon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Niklas Keller wrote: >> Yes, that's a BC break. Instead of changing it, there could be a new >> function. But as it can be simply built in userland, I don't see much >> reason to have it in core. >> > 100% agreed. This is a 3 line function and doing it in userland means > you can use it in 5.5 or later. > > function range($low, $high) { > for ($i = $low; $i <= $high; ++$i) { yield $i; } > } > In fact, here: This is how easy that is. https://packagist.org/packages/phplang/generator