Re: Data Structures question

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 03:50, Robin Johnson wrote: > Greetings List. > > I'm one of the core developers of phpMyAdmin, and in doing some coding > recently I found that it would have been incredibly helpful to have some > data structure PHP classes, alá Java Collections (Set/Queue/Iterator etc). > > A basic list of classes that might come out of this: > Structure_Set > Structure_LinkedList > Structure_Map > Structure_SortedSet > Structure_SortedMap > Structure_HashSet > Structure_TreeSet > Structure_Queue > Structure_Iterator > ... > > The key ones I am interested in at the moment are Queues and Sets. > But the rest of the data structures do have a well defined place in the > world, so they'd come into existance as well. > > I do have a few questions about classes in PHP tho. > What is the best way to go about having private/protected and > static/abstract functions ? I haven't ever seen the keywords in use in > PHP, and they make a LOT of sense to use with data structures. > > I'm going to put together some code framework, and then request a PEAR > CVS account to stick the stuff in while I work on it (using the devel > status tag while I go bottom-up coding). Hi, I've been thinking about a few of these classes too, especially Queue and Iterator. So then it's down to naming. Some suggestions (in addition to Structure_*): Data_* DS_* (data structure) What are Perl and Java calling these? - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb