Hi! > FTR this is basically what Python does via defaultdict: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.defaultdict > > I think it is the "cleanest" solution to this problem overall. Though it > does need a separate structure, rather than our favorite PHP array.
This is one of the most annoying quirks of python - that you have to use special package to do simplest tasks like counting anything by key or write annoying boilerplate code that reminds python that counting starts with 0. Now strictness zealots want to bring that into PHP. If I was a person to do that, I'd definitely write a long "python sadness" text and that would feature there prominently, but I don't have time to do that so I just note that now, that it is very sad that the annoying quirks of python are brought into php apparently because more strict is always better. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
