On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> > I know that not everyone agrees with that philosophy, but I personally > > don't like to add new features that can be easily covered by more > > general solutions, or features that just represent a hack because the > > more general solution isn't implemented yet. > > By more general you mean extra special new OO constructs? Sorry, but PHP > should also be useable by non-CS majors. And so what we have 76 (soon > 77!) array functions? > List comprehensions are in no way related to OO. At least no way I know off. But in any case: I apologize for what I wrote in the first mail in the thread. It was not constructive to this discussion, because it only contained half of my reasoning and I only mentioned the more controversial part. What I should have said is this: I think that this is a very simple function that can be easily implemented in userland and I just don't see sufficient need or implementational advantages for it to be part of core (see also Anthony's response). The note on list comprehensions should only be relevant insofar that they would make this function even *less* useless in the future. Again, sorry for hijacking this thread. Nikita
