On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Andreas Hennings <andr...@dqxtech.net> wrote:
> Hello internals,
> (this is my first email to this list, hopefully I'm doing ok.)
>
Welcome to php-internals!

> Establish a new interface in core, "Reader" or "ReaderInterface" (*).
> This interface has only one method, "->read()".
> The existing interface Iterator will remain unchanged.
>
Rather than introduce a new kind of iteration mechanism, how about
just creating a library in userspace which provides a proxy interface:

class Reader implements Iterator {
  protected $it;
  public function __construct(iterable $it) { $this->it = $it; }
  public function current/key/next/rewind/valid() {
$this->it->current/key/next/rewind/valid(); }
  public function read() { /* What a reader should be */ }
}

Then you can use any already extant iterable via:  $reader = new
Reader($iterable);
This could live in a composer/packagist library and work on already
released versions of PHP.
Or is there something I'm missing?

-Sara

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