Re: [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface

> People who don't know what FFI is, don't need it. I think this is a very dangerous way of designing, writing and documenting software. I appreciate your efforts in pushing this forward, but please reconsider when approaching the naming problematic, because this point of view is extremely flawed. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:37 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > 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> 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. > >