Re: LIFO package?

<quote who="Martin Jansen"> >> Is ADT stable now? > I have no idea. In fact I never did anything with the extension. I did neither. Sorry, to say, but I hate Sterlings manner of overpraise his new ideas and not finishing them... >> Is Sterling really working further on it? Last "real" >> changes to that code seem to be months, when not years, ago. For that >> having >> a simple PHP package with those classes sounds not that bad to me. > It is actually very, very, very bad, because it will lead people into > deceptive security: Implementations of datatypes need to be fast per > definition, because they are probably one of the most basic things in > a programming language. Thus it is common sense to implement new > types at the lowest level that is possible (without diving into > assembler progamming). In case of PHP, the lowest level is a C > extension. > Compared to low level implementations, userland implementations will > be terribly slow. > And that's, where "deceptive security" joins the game: Having slow > implementations of advanced datatypes in PEAR will cause people to > start using the types more or less heavily, because they think that > the stuff can't be bad if it comes from PEAR. But in fact, the stuff > is bad. Even bader than Usama and Sideshow Bob together. Ok, I see the point. But nevertheless, a C package like ADT would be cool... Damn, I should learn C... never had the time... maybe that works, when I start studying... Regards, Toby -- Tobias Schlitt a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info