At 09:33 PM 9/7/2001 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
>On 07/09/01, "Andrei Zmievski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If this is implemented (I think Andi may have some thoughts about this),
>
>Hopefully not bad thoughts!
I do have some bad thoughts about it. I'm worried that if we supply such an
easy function to parse incoming hash table's people will start writing a
lot of PHP functions which accept hash tables instead of regular argument
lists. This is much slower and I think it's better to stay with the way
functions are written today and not change the standard. There are very few
functions which accept arrays as parameters and most of them are functions
which act on Hashes so it makes sense.
I think when you supply an API function like this which is very easy to
use, it will start being misused quickly!
What cases do you feel this is needed and are you sure regular argument
lists aren't good enough?
Andi
> > zend_parse_parameters_hash(HASH_OF(my_zval), "{s:firstname}|{s:lastname}
> > {l:age}", &firstname, &firstname_len, &lastname, &lastname_len, &age);
>
>Yes - much better. I originally thought of something like this (a bit
>like the python dictionary syntax people have been talking about recently):
>
>"s%(firstname)|s%(lastname)l%(age)"
>
>But that is hard to read, so I thought of splitting it up.
>
>--Wez.
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