Re: Re: is_array_multidimensional

Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 10:42 PM 12/29/2001 +0100, Stig Venaas wrote:

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote:

I agree with Jim. Arrays can contain "things". Things can also be other arrays. You can have an array which contains two other arrays and four integers. I don't think we should add these functions because they are wrong *especially* the is_array_multidimensional().

Agree

Of course, if there's a good reason to have them and we're all

convinced

that the reasons are good we could add them. Can you please roll back that patch and open up a discussion with

examples

of why this functionality is needed? It might even lead to a different solution.

One solution (not so sure I like it myself), could be a function that tells whether an array contains values of a given type. Then you could check if the array contained an array (or any other type). I've never had a use for such myself.

Let's first try and understand the problem :) In what case does the user need these functions and how often does this happen to people. Once we understand the problem well we can think together of a good solution. Andi

Oh well... I tried to find a use for it, but failed :(. I wrote it for no reason, thinking it would be useful to someone, somewhere... So i guess i agree with all of you (more or less).