Re: consistent way to handle structs

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote : > Georg Richter wrote: > > >is there (should be) a consistent way to pass or return a structure?! > > > >e.g.: > > > >a) Function mktime splits the structure in lot of parameters > >b) fstat returns a non assoc array > >c) dio_fstat (which seems to be identical to fstat) returns an assoc array > > assoc array IMHO > > especialy mktime() is a good example on how *not* to things > as not everyone in the world is used to month-day-year dates :( I'm for (+1) assoc return values. I think the code which is used to handle it is more verbose then ( $day = $assoc['day']; and not $day = $arr[0]; or whatever) and it also helps debugging because you can just do a print_r() on the return type. If we start to agree on assoc params we should also think of new functions to more easily parse them to expected variable types zend_parse_parameters_hash(hashtable TSRMLS_CC, " key1:type1, |optional_key2:type2", &var1, &var2); Ok, don't sue me, its just an idea how to simplify those kind of param-parsings. Zak and I were also discussing about such a way of parsing more optional argument after his recent mysql propose. Maybe Andrei has an idea too? - Markus -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.