On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 18:06, Aimeos | Norbert Sendetzky <norb...@aimeos.com> wrote:
> Am 04.02.20 um 18:18 schrieb Larry Garfield: > > The more I think on it, the less I like `arrayable`. PHP arrays are > > a terrible data structure from a type system point of view, with too > > much functionality crammed into one variable type. > > The array internals are outside the scope of this proposal and are not > affected in any way by this proposal. > I think Larry's point was that the flexibility of PHP's array type makes it really hard to pin down whether a given object is "array-like" or not, and which attributes a particular function actually cares about. A general "intersection type" system might be more useful, because then you could require the parts you specifically needed, such as "traversable&ArrayAccess" or "traversable&countable". Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
