RE: [PHP] pointers

You're definitely asking for trouble if you use pointers... Did you ever write CGIs in C/C++ before discovering PHP? :) Just use reference variables. However, in every site I've done, I've never found any need for handling VERY large sets of data in memory... For the small amounts of data PHP scripts most often handle, an access time of (or near) O(n) is perfectly acceptible. The overhead is usually database access/bandwidth, not the script (notice I said -usually). Going from page to page with a browser would require recreating that data structure every time, which seems like it would be a real pain. If you were using PHP as a shell scripting language or doing backend tasks, and you must handle large enough amounts of data to warrant using lists, trees, heaps, etc. then my analysis may be completely wrong. For a language that rarely sees pages with large execution times, using multidimensional associative arrays seems much more practical, since all the handling functions are built in. -----Original Message----- From: Martín Marqués [mailto:martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:24 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] pointers Will there ever be a pointer data type in future releases of PHP? Something like C/C++ pointers? It would be nice to have chained elements (structures) to build trees, and chained lists. Saludos... :-) -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | mmarques@unl.edu.ar Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net