Re: Internal iteration API
| From: | Stas Malyshev | 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.
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