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Subject: breaking the engine in spite of itself
From: sterling@bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)

Howdy,

One thing that would make it much easier for Zend/PHP to integrate with
other runtime environments, is letting PHP_FUNCTION() functions accept
the argument stack as a parameter, and then having the utility
libraries, accept and manipulate those parameters.  For 90% of the
functions (certainly for the external libraries), this would allow the
functions in libphp to be called without an execution environment.

Would it be possible to add that parameter to the engine and change the
call semantics of parse_parameters to allow for direct argument access?

-Sterling