Re: Internal iteration API

From: Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:35:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Internal iteration API
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Hi! > So, I've not been inside the engine so in practice this may make no > sense at all, but what about looking at it the other way around? Vis, > instead of making objects more and more like arrays, make arrays an > object that happens to implement ArrayAccess, Iterator, and whatever That'd be very nice idea if we were implementing new PHP. I think the fact that arrays are not objects in PHP is a source of many problems. However, right now it probably won't be possible to do it without breaking BC in many places dealing with array copy/assignment/passing semantics. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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