Hi, I'm Andy Lester, and I'm usually a Perl person. I've worked on
the Perl 5 and Parrot internals over the past few years, working to
clean up the C code.
The other day I was poking through the C code behind PHP 5.2 and saw
some places that I thought I could help clean up. If the PHP core
folks are interested (and I have no idea how you PHP people handle
maintenance on things like this), I'd be glad to do some safety and
stylistic improvements that should help make the code safer.
The changes I'd be looking to make are:
* Using const qualifiers on as many core functions as possible,
* Using const qualifiers on variables to help ensure they don't get
changed accidentally
* Using variables in the smallest scope possible
I've undertaken this task in Perl 5 and Parrot to great effect, and
just had a little patch accepted here http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43041
. In the Parrot project, I wrote a guide to the benefits of consting: http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/parrot-0.5.0/docs/project/cage_cleaners_guide.pod#Why_consting_is_good
It seems PHP is using const in some places, but many more remain to
be exploited.
Is this something you'd be interested in, or should I not bother? If
so, how shall I begin?
thanks,
xoxo,
Andy
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