Re: substr/array_slice in []

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > On 10/1/07, Martin Alterisio <malterisio777@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry to bother, I have a few questions on this matter. > > > How will this impact on the SPL ArrayAccess and related interfaces and > > > objects? > > > Will there be an interface to this functionality? > > > If so, how will ranges be passed through to this interface? > > > Will this be consistent with substr() and array_slice() if used with an > > > ArrayAccess implementation? > > > > I guess it can be made to work with current ArrayAccess, but result > > will be quite slow. (it will need to query requested elements > > one-by-one and recombine those in array) > > > > But adding another interface can solve the problem. Ranges can be > > passed exactly the way they are passed to [] operator > > > > public function rangeGet($start, $length); > > public function rangeSet($start, $length, array $data); > > Here's the question I see. Right now, does an ArrayAccess object work with > array_slice()? If so, then [2, 5] syntax would be just some nice syntactic > sugar. It doesn't matter if it works with array_slice() or not. [x] works with ArrayAccess, so you'd expect [x,y] to work as well otherwise it's inconsistent. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org