I think the "step" option which you added is quite useful in every case. Why didn't you merge into the branch? there seems no BC problem about it.
Moriyoshi > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 03:28:45AM +0900, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > > > Hmm, since nothing is mentioned about the rule of character sequence > > generation in the manual, I don't think it's so necessary. IMO this new > > feature introduced in 4.1.0 should not be included in the first place > > because it broke backwards compatibilities pretty much as one of the user > > contributed notes says and its behaviour is also as unexpectable as the > > number of charset - encoding mappings out there. > > Yes, I can see that causing problems. I think it's necessary to leave > the capability to generate character sequences in there now, though, > for all sorts of backwards-compatibility reasons. > > My change to range() (the addition of the "step" parameter) was > primarily inspired by Python's range() function, described here: > > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-47 > > The Python version does not handle characters, which (as we both > agree) is the "better" implementation. > > -- > Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/) > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
