> I would like to ask you what is your opinion about implementing Binary >>> Tree >>> and Graph data structures in SPL in addition to existing ones? IMHO it >>> would be great because that will prevent from inventing a wheel all the >>> time, and prove that PHP is full featured language like C#, Java, ... >>> >> >> Convince me with use-cases; I don't think proving that we're as >> "full-featured" as C# is helpful, healthy or necessary. > >
Use cases I can think about are social, network, geographical, connected > flights graphs, work with hierarchical data like corporations structures, > products categories, indexing objects tree stored in memory/cache and PHP > web applications representing those relations and solving common problems > (has connection, shortest path, MST, recommendations in social graph, > search) > If you can extract a useful, common API for all of those tasks then I would definitely support implementing Graphs in the SPL. Maybe in a real world, because of PHP performance it probably will not be > so effective anyways If we end up putting graphs in the SPL then performance would be a big reason to do so; it would be written in C.
