Re: Intervals representation with brackets
| From: | Samuel ROZE | Date: | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Intervals representation with brackets | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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It's clear. ;-)
Thanks.
2009/11/20 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>:
> Samuel ROZE wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on two classes, Interval and IntervalList which describe
>> an interval and a list of intervals. These intervals are defined using
>> the Interval class:
>>
>> <?php
>> $interval = new Interval((int) $from, (int) $to);
>> ?>
>>
>> These intervals can be stored in a list of intervals, using IntervalList:
>>
>> <?php
>> $list = new IntervalList();
>> $list->add($interval_1);
>> $list->add($interval_2);
>> ?>
>>
>> IntervalList's functions are:
>> - inverse(); which returns an IntervalList object
>> - intersection(); which returns an IntervalList object of intervals
>> which are contained by every interval of this list.
>>
>> To be easier, what do you think about:
>> <?php
>> // An interval with [ & ]
>> $interval = [ (int) $from, (int) $to ];
>> ?>
>>
>> <?php
>> // A list of intervals
>> $list = [ $from_1, $to_1] + [$from_2, $to_2] + ... [$from_n, $to_n];
>> $list_2 = [$from_1, $to_1] + ... + $interval_n;
>> ?>
>
> No chance that top-level square brackets will mean intervals, sorry.
>
> -Rasmus
>
>