Re: Re: foreach() for strings

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 20:38 +0200, Robert Eisele wrote: > I really like the ideas shared here. It's a thing of consideration that > array-functions should also work with strings. Maybe this would be the way > to go, but I'm more excited about the OOP implementation of TextIterator and > ByteIterator, which solves the whole problem at once (and is easier to > implement, as mentioned by Stas). As Jonathan said, Database results with a > certain encoding could get iterated, too. The only way to workaround the > Text/Byte problem would be, offsetting >EVERY< string with 1-2 byte > "string-type" information or an additional type flag in the zval-strcuture. > Handling everything with zval's instead of objects would have the advantage, > that database-layers like mysqlnd could write the database-encoding directly > into the zval and the user had no need to decide what encoding is used. Welcome back to the failed PHP 6 Unicode project. ;-) (while we didn't store the original encoding but converted to Utf-16, which prevents random/strange conversions in other places when mixing encodings) johannes