[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h

2001-08-07 Thread Andi Gutmans
In what case is this useful? I'm kind of worried that so many functions are popping up in PHP which accept arrays as parameters. It's much slower than passing the arguments in a regular way. How often do people dynamically build formats *and* then dynamically build an array of arguments? Andi

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h

2001-08-07 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: In what case is this useful? I'm kind of worried that so many functions are popping up in PHP which accept arrays as parameters. It's much slower than passing the arguments in a regular way. How often do people dynamically build formats *and* then

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h

2001-08-07 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 02:53 PM 8/7/2001 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: In what case is this useful? I'm kind of worried that so many functions are popping up in PHP which accept arrays as parameters. It's much slower than passing the arguments in a regular way. How

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h

2001-08-07 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: Do you really think it's worth it? People will use features which are available. I don't think it's the right thing to allow them to write code which is *much* slower than the old way when it usually doesn't give you much advantage over the old way.