Re: Proposal for a new array function

My personal take on this: Let's add just more 1 function over a 99999 function's array API, because I want to optimize 3 lines in my PHP code, and language lack of Generics while we still refuse to carefully think about a proper OO Collection API. Regards, On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Matthew Setter <matthew@maltblue.com> wrote: > Thanks kindly for the rapid and very helpful feedback. I'm going over it > today and will collate it and think over it further. Given that the > feedback's been so constructive and positive, I'll be getting started on an > RFC over the next day or so. > > Matt > > > -- > Kind regards, > > > *Matthew Setter* > *Freelance Software Developer & Technical Writer * > *Host of Free the Geek <http://freethegeek.fm> | Author > of Zend Framework > 2 > Foundations > <https://leanpub.com/zendframework2-for-beginners>* > > w: http://www.matthewsetter.com > t: *@settermjd <https://www.twitter.com/settermjd>* > g+: *+MatthewSetterFreelanceWriterDeveloper > > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MatthewSetterFreelanceWriterDeveloper/posts > >* > li: *in/matthewsetter > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewsetter>* > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Matt Prelude <me@mprelu.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >> I want to propose a new PHP array method, called has_numeric_keys (or > >> something similar/better), that would have the following method > signature: > >> > >> bool has_numeric_keys(array $array) > >> > >> The reason for it is to check if the array passed to it only had numeric > >> keys. > >> > >> Why this method, when you could do it in userland PHP? Answer? > >> Convenience. > >> I found, recently, that I had to perform this kind of check, when > patching > >> Zend\Db\Sql\Insert.php. The approach I took was this: > >> > >> return array_keys($arr) !== range(0, count($arr) - 1); > >> > >> Not sure of my approach, I took to Twitter and received the following > >> suggestions, amongst others: > >> > >> function isArrNum($arr) { > >> foreach($arr as $i =>$v){ > >> if (!is_int($i)) { > >> return false; > >> } > >> } > >> return true; > >> } > >> > >> count(array_filter(array_keys($array), 'is_string')) > 0 > >> > >> array_filter([...], 'is_int', ARRAY_FILTER_USE_KEY) > >> > >> This convinced me that it wasn't just me seeing a valid use case for it, > >> and that others have implemented differing solutions when presented with > >> the same situation. Given that, I believe a simple, utility, function > such > >> as this would be of help. > >> > >> As for who would implement it, that would be me. > >> > > I like it. Would like to see it be a bit more generic though, something > > like (ignore the name, I can't name functions): > > > > array_validate_keys($array, is_int); > > > > I say this because it allows for more potential uses (that and I've done > > exactly the same to check all keys are strings before). > > > > - Matt. > > > > > -- Guilherme Blanco MSN: guilhermeblanco@hotmail.com GTalk: guilhermeblanco Toronto - ON/Canada