Re: Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 php.h /php4/ext/standard file.c

>At 09:32 PM 4/30/00 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: >>Andi Gutmans wrote: >> > >> > andi Sun Apr 30 09:32:37 2000 EDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > /php4 php.h >> > /php4/ext/standard file.c >> > Log: >> > - Take Sascha's advice and create on V_OPEN() which replaces open(). >> > - Unlike the other macros its argument has to have braces around it, for >> > - example, open(filename, flags) becomse V_OPEN((filename, flags)) >> > - Made small conversion to new Zend macros. The ugly >> (*foo)->value.str.val >> > - now becomes Z_STRVAL_PP(foo). PP means pointer pointer, there also >> exist >> > - single P's for example foo->value.str.val becomes Z_STRVAL_P(foo). >> >>Is this the start of the Perlifying the internals: >> >>SvPv(foo) -- Perl >>Z_STRVAL_PP(foo) -- Zend > >I have no idea how Perl does it, we just created these macro's because it >started to be annoying to write (*foo)->value.str.val (Z_STRVAL_PP(foo)), >foo->value.lval (Z_LVAL_P(foo)) and so on. I personally think they are >quite nice and readable. I agree, they are nice, I just happend to notice the similiarity between: SvPv(foo) and Z_STRVAL_PP(foo) or SvIv(foo) and Z_LVAL_P(foo) Sterling ------------------- Email sent using AnyEmail (http://netbula.com/anyemail/)