Re: Extension proposal

From: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:24:46 +0000
Subject: Re: Extension proposal
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Stanislav, I think it's practical. My belief is that, like the use of other iterators, it tends to be more expressive and less error prone. But, I wouldn't remove for(;;) from the language, like Python. It's nice to have options. On 10/28/07 8:51 PM, in article 472558D0.9070504@zend.com, "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com> wrote: >> Do you need any other reason than "it's like Python?" :) >> >> First, there's the memory conservation. You don't need to pre-allocate an >> array. Second, it's an objectified range iterator / generator. This means >> you can combine it with SPL and even your own custom iterators. > > Is it really practical? I'm not set against it, but what's wrong with > good old for($i=0;$i<100;$i++)?

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