Re: Supporting ArrayObject in array_* functions

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:08 -0300, Guilherme Blanco wrote: > What do you think about the possibility to support ArrayObject > instances in array_* functions? > If you all agreed on this, I can definately help to complete the > patch, but I need some initial guidance to finish at least the first > function. In general I'm for bringing Iterators/ArrayObject/.. on a line with arrays but please don't simply patch some functions but let's try to find a as consistent as possible global solution. Questions included there are of these kinds (just examples) - is that specific to ArrayObject or do we "need" interfaces like "Sortable" or "Shuffable" - What should stuff like aray_merge(ArrayObject, array) do - Should we do this globally? (should ldap_set_option() allow an ArrayObject as 3rd param?) Especially the latter shows that a proper solution might be not to patch individual functions but to introduce some form of abstraction from HashTables for "array operations" and then use that interface. Simply extending a few functions will end in a mess but looking around people seem to love these structures so improving them is good. johannes