Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h

On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Do you really think it's worth it? People will use features which are > available. I don't think it's the right thing to allow them to write code > which is *much* slower than the old way when it usually doesn't give you > much advantage over the old way. > Anyway, if you guys think it's really needed, so be it. I just think it's > kind of slow and I personally think we should not encourage people to pass > arguments with arrays. We're doing this in far too many places for my taste. We've been over this before and my point of view has not really changed: having functions like this in PHP is not a bad thing, because people will usually figure out what suits their needs performance-wise and otherwise. -Andrei * Ethernet n.: something used to catch the etherbunny. *