Re: [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface

Hi Marco, Some API and naming issues may be changed, e.g. FFI::array_type() was renamed to FFI::arrayType(). Changing FFI into ForeignFunctionInterface looks, like an overhead. People who don't know what FFI is, don't need it. I surprised, there are no any problem reports... It seems, like few people on @internals tried it. Thanks. Dmitry. ________________________________ From: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 7:26:57 PM To: Dmitry Stogov Cc: PHP Internals List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface Looks very interesting, especially for simplifying the landscape of extensions. Still, the amount of abbreviations and naming issues is quite huge: needs a lot of care on that end, IMO. Even just the name of the type (FFI) can simply be expanded to ForeignFunctionInterface. Just my 2 cents. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:54 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com<mailto:dmitry@zend.com>> wrote: Hi Internals, I would like to start discussion of FFI RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ffi This extension allows calling C function and accessing C data structures in pure PHP. In conjunction with preloading it gives a possibility to write PHP extension in PHP itself. The extension was tested on attempt to build TensorFlow PHP binding. Thanks. Dmitry.