Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-26 Thread Clint Priest
There is also a PECL extension already under development that will probably fill this void so many people would like to see filled. On 2/25/2013 7:43 AM, Nils Andre wrote: Hi Everyone on the list, I have no RFC Karma here so far, so I post this to the list at first. There has been ongoing disc

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-25 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 02/25/2013 02:43 PM, Nils Andre wrote: > strings. Not going too much into details here, many programmes always have > to look up the function definition because very similar functions have > their parameters in different orders or simply don't act in a predictive, > well-structured manner. This

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-25 Thread Florin Razvan Patan
Hello, See the reply inline: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Nils Andre wrote: > Hi Everyone on the list, I have no RFC Karma here so far, so I post this to > the list at first. There has been ongoing discussion about new APIs and so > fort, so this is a suggestion for language cleanup by Autob

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Boutell
It's a good idea, IMHO. This particular paragraph should probably be removed: "It would also allow many brilliant constructs like the following if ($b->startsWith("This")) { ... } in contrast to if (substr($b,0,4) == "This") { ... } Notice that the latter is error-prone, because if t

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-25 Thread Sebastian Krebs
2013/2/25 Nils Andre > Hi Everyone on the list, I have no RFC Karma here so far, so I post this to > the list at first. There has been ongoing discussion about new APIs and so > fort, so this is a suggestion for language cleanup by Autoboxing. I'd > really appreciate comments. > > == Introduction

[PHP-DEV] RFC Autoboxing Draft

2013-02-25 Thread Nils Andre
Hi Everyone on the list, I have no RFC Karma here so far, so I post this to the list at first. There has been ongoing discussion about new APIs and so fort, so this is a suggestion for language cleanup by Autoboxing. I'd really appreciate comments. == Introduction == This RFC tries to approach the