Re: Let range() return a generator?
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Sat, 18 Mar 2017 01:14:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let range() return a generator? | ||
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that's a BC break. Instead of changing it, there could be a new
>> function. But as it can be simply built in userland, I don't see much
>> reason to have it in core.
>>
> 100% agreed. This is a 3 line function and doing it in userland means
> you can use it in 5.5 or later.
>
> function range($low, $high) {
> for ($i = $low; $i <= $high; ++$i) { yield $i; }
> }
>
In fact, here: This is how easy that is.
https://packagist.org/packages/phplang/generator