Re: Internal iteration API

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > 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. I'd then say : let's keep that idea somewhere to implement it in a new major PHP version. Anyway, there will come a time where we will be developing for PHP6 (or PHP next Major if you prefer), and I think we should use this gap to break BC and add new cool ideas like this one, we seem all to agree with. Julien.P