Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard array.c
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:43:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard array.c | ||
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Zak Greant wrote:
> Coincidentally, I was just reading the Zend API docs about this a few
> days ago:
>
> Here is a relevant passage:
> We've only discussed the so-called *_ex() API so far. You may have
> noticed that the API functions we've used are called
> zend_get_parameters_ex() instead of zend_get_parameters(),
> convert_to_long_ex() instead of convert_to_long(), etc. The *_ex()
> functions form the so-called new "extended" Zend API. They give a
> minor speed increase over the old API, but as a tradeoff are only
> meant for providing read-only access. ...
In some cases *_ex just means an extended version of the function,
meaning that it allows full control over parameters.
-Andrei
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