Sorry, as an add on to my previous, a feature request was opened on the Bug tracker in 2010 #51460 <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51460> for a yield syntax construct Sam.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Samuel Giles <sam.e.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > Ok, I see that now. I know you're not necessarily saying what's been > proposed is a good idea but I can see a benefit in pythonic style > generators as a separate piece of functionality, implementing a yield > function, has this ever been discussed before? My apologies if this is the > case I've not seen it since I've been following this list. > > I know there is the SPL Iterator, but just as in the example you provided > implementations *can* be verbose and convoluted. > > Cheers, > Sam > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmax...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Sam, >> >> I'm not saying it's a good idea, but this would allow for pythonic >> style generators. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators >> >> Just pointing out one potential use-case... >> >> Anthony >> >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Samuel Giles <sam.e.gi...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > My major concern would be, how does this* really* add to PHP? Perhaps >> I'm >> > missing the point, but what would this allow that can't be done in some >> > form using well defined "patterns", for lack of a better word. >> > >> > I'm not keen on the idea of throwing things such as Interrupts either, >> it >> > doesn't quite fit with their general use case. >> > >> > Sam >> > >
