On Nov 7, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> At 11:24 AM 11/7/2003 -0500, George Schlossnagle wrote:
>> Is there any reason spl is being maintained in a separate tree? It
>> would really be nice to have it in the main distribution before the
>> next beta. It keeps popping up on Zeev's slides, but isn't easily
>> available for end-users looking to try it out. It might also help
>> getting it's final API tacked down.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by SPL. We had long discussions with
> Marcus and decided that for PHP 5 iterators will be part of Zend
> (which they are) and array overloading won't be (I don't think it is
> extremely necessary except for internal extensions which are
> supported).
Array accessors are supported in Marcus's SPL extension (which is in
the spl module in cvs.php.net:/repository). They are nice. I
understand then not being internal to the engine (though I would
personally like to see them there), but it wuold be nice either way to
see spl pulled out of it's own module into ext/ where more people can
use it.
George
