Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Lazare Inepologlou <linepogl@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2014/1/15 Philip Sturgeon <pjsturgeon@gmail.com> >> >> Hey, >> >> This is my first RFC so give me a little leeway if I get things wrong. >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrayof >> >> The implementation has been written by Joe Watkins, and I will be >> handling the RFC process for him. >> >> It is aimed at PHP 5.6, and so far the release managers seem to be ok >> with the idea of this potentially being merged after the alpha >> release, so this should not be considered an issue. >> >> Everything is open for discussion, especially the current error >> messages. They are not perfect, so let us know if you have better >> ideas. >> > > Hello, > > this is a nice proposal. > > I hope that it is not limited to arrays only... All tranversables should be > acceptable (as they are acceptable for variadiac functions). Otherwise this > will lead to unnecessary (and costly) convertions. > > > Lazare INEPOLOGLOU > Ingénieur Logiciel > > > > Currently function (array Foo) is ONLY arrays, not number of interfaces will change that. This RFC keeps to the same logic, but a later RFC could (and IMO absolutely should) address this. I would suggest that this is a different issue, and should be kept separate.