Re: Introducing "Array Of" RFC

>> ArrayOf: "I would like hammers in a bag." >> Generics: "I would like a bag of hammers." > > Generics are more like "I would like a 100lb to 120lb bag of hammers > with handles made of wood grown in equatorial Africa between 1980 and > 1985, not cut down during national holidays in Brazil and provided all > workers were paid the fair wage, while the heads must be made of steel > approved by German Council of Steel Manufacturers, and the assembly must > have been performed in a country that signed the convention about the > ethical treatment of animals". You'd want arrays of arrays of foo, and > arrays that have keys of foo and values be arrays of tuples of bar and > baz, etc. etc. > I can definitely see a contract that would require hammers exactly like > that, or even with more precise list of conditions, but do we want this > in the PHP language itself (as opposed to delegating it to the > user/library code)? I personally don't really want it as a part of the > language. I think keeping language small(ish) and simple has its value. > I can only assume you're using sarcasm to highlight the ridiculousness of that argument, because I know you, and you're not NEARLY that much of an idiot. -Sara