Hello Andi, Saturday, November 20, 2004, 1:02:05 AM, you wrote:
> At 10:26 AM 11/19/2004 +0100, Marcus Boerger wrote: >>You simply implement the interface countable and then your objects can be >>put into count() to get the count function called. This is very helpful >>with ArrayObject/ArrayIterator which are array wrappers and thus they >>should work in count() as expected. > I don't completely agree because I can probably find many other places > where this could theoretically have to work. So I'm not quite sure why > count() is special (maybe because it's the most straightforward example). I > mean it's not the end of the world but these kind of things tend to start > at "let's just get count() to work" and then there are incremental patches > to put PHP upside down to fix other places. > You never answered about the naming convention? I think in any case, it > should be using the standard naming convention for such reserved function, > as in __count(). We don't do this for any other interface based 'magic' (iterators, array overloading). But if that's your only concern then i'll happily change the name of course. Best regards, Marcus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
