As a demonstration, this is new "top posted" text because the earlier
posted conversation in the thread exists below the newly written reply
text. [BAD]


On Tue, 18 Aug 2026, 08:36 سپهر محمودی, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Larry,
>
> [...]
>
> Regards,
>
> Sepehr
>

This is new "bottom posted" text because the earlier posted conversation in
the thread exists above the newly written reply text. [GOOD]

In the PHP Internals mailing list, you are expected to only "bottom post".
This rule is to allow easy human comprehension of the conversation. By
always bottom posting, the discussion in the thread of emails always reads
as oldest communication at the top and most recent at the bottom. Sepehr,
many of your recent emails have violated this simple rule. Please
permanently stop writing your replies with the historic content below your
new reply.

Also, I am not a voting member of this organization, but I can say that
I've never had a professional project that required your proposed function
nor do I recall ever encountering a Stack Overflow question which would
benefit from your proposed function (and I have been a heavy curator of
php&arrays tagged content for many years). That doesn't mean that your
proposed function is worthless, I just haven't encountered a use case
personally.

If a PHP array needed a pagination-style search function, should perhaps
the data structure be reconsidered? Is the data structure purpose-built or
is the function overcoming a suboptimal data structure?

mickmackusa

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