Re: Internal iteration API

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On 07/24/2012 03:52 AM, jpauli wrote: >> >> 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 > > > Agreed. We survived Objects becoming, er, Objects in PHP 5.0. Arrays > changing would be a major version change, but if the benefits are enough, we > could survive that, too. +1 great notice. We had a huge step between PHP4 and PHP5. It's done now (hence it wasn't that easy to achieve). So it wont be frightening to see another gap between PHP5 and PHP-NEXT-MAJOR , especially if it's lower than 4-to-5 was. Julien.P