On 16 March 2019 05:18:55 GMT+00:00, Larry Garfield
wrote:
>In general, though, I think beefing up objects to be "more usable as
>structs" (locked against dynamic properties, getter/setter methods,
>possibly some improved tooling for with*()-style behavior, etc.) is the
>more sustainable long-ter
On 15 March 2019 15:26:27 GMT+00:00, Nikita Popov wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 4:16 PM Levi Morrison wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think pass by-value with copy-on-write semantics like
>> arrays is the sweet spot. Mutability is fine if it is localized.
>>
>
>If we introduce something like this, I
On 14.03.19 20:33, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
ps. more ambitious would be to introduce a new "substring" type, which
would share the allocation of a parent string with its own offset and
length fields. That would probably be as invasive as the ZVAL_INTERNED_STR
type, though -- a much much bigger pr
