Re: feature request: structs
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:06:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: feature request: structs | ||
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What you would gain from this is completely negligible. It's not worth to
'pollute' the language with new semantics just for marginally increased
performance.
Classes in PHP are in fact structs with functions. If you don't use the
functions, you're left with fully functional structs.
Zeev
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Mathieu Kooiman (ggInternet) wrote:
> It'd use less memory right?
> No need to define and emalloc() etc function tables..
>
> and it seems more appropriate, a class would just be overhead.
>
> --CaPS
>
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Mathieu Kooiman (ggInternet) wrote:
> > >
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > I've ran into several situations where I'd would want to use
> > > something to store data in but not being a class instance.
> > > Pretty much like C's struct ..
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > How would that be different from class for all intents and purposes?
> >
> > -Andrei
> >
> > "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."
> > - Louis Armstrong, when asked "What is jazz?"
> >
>
>
>
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