Hi! >> My number one issue with this PR is that it's all PHP code. There's nothing > in here that couldn't be done as a composer installable library > > It's a valid point, but not really a good argument against having it - the > same could after all be said about a lot of PHP functions.
Many of those were introduced when we didn't have good ecosystem for libraries, and whatever is baked into PHP binary is all you got to work with. Not the case anymore. Many others were introduced because it was hard to do it in PHP (no access to some internals, or slow, or required things that code break between versions). Not the case here either. Also, there's a difference between core having 20 functions and adding 21st that is doing something new, and core having 200 functions and adding 201st that does exactly like one of the existing ones but slightly different (slightly enough so you'd have to consult the manual now to see why you used each of them in each context). -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
