Re: consistent way to handle structs

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Markus Fischer wrote: > 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? Hey, I suggested this idea to Andi when I was writing parse-parameters stuff, but it didn't sit well with him because it would encourage people to pass slow arrays around and all that, he said. -Andrei * If it's never finished, you can't prove it doesn't work. *