RE: [PHP4BETA] Suggestion to zend-api: some lookahead could make functions callsfaster!

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Ignore that last letter... will do ;-) > > At 22:13 16/11/1999 , Zeev Suraski wrote: > >At 19:19 16/11/1999 , Samuel Liddicott wrote: > > > > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: Thies C. Arntzen [mailto:thies@digicol.de] > >> > Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 06:33 PM > >> > To: Zeev Suraski; Andi Gutmans > >> > Cc: php4beta@lists.php.net > >> > Subject: [PHP4BETA] Suggestion to zend-api: some lookahead could make > >> > functions callsfaster! > >> > > >> > i'd also like a new set of first(), current(), next() etc functions that > >> > return a reference to the corresponding array element instead of a copy - > >> > something like r_first() would be ugly - how about &first()? > >> > >>Yes. As I say often I hate the behind the scenes copying. It makes > >>somethings hard to do. > > > >Thies is only talking about performance issues, not functionality... How > >does this behind-the-scenes copying make some things hard to do? It > >shouldn't be detectable by the user at all. > > > >Zeev > >-- > >Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany