While we're at this and considering the new lambdas that we now have in
the language
I must say I'd like some functions to support Traversables. Those would be:
array_map(), array_reduce(), array_filter(), array_walk() and
array_walk_recursive()
Although I'd rather want a class (because the array_* functions don't
adhere to some strict param order standards)
to provide functional style methods, like those in Javascript 1.8:
https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/New_in_JavaScript_1.6#section_2
https://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/New_in_JavaScript_1.8#section_4
Array.forEach()
Array.map()
Array.filter()
Array.reduce()
Array.reduceRight()
Array.some()
Array.every()
In PHP something like this would be nice:
$processedDirectoryIterator = SplFunctional(new
DirecotoryIterator(__DIR__)).map(function() {
// do stuff here
});
where SplFunctional is a function returning a SplFunctional object whose
construcor accepts iteratable
structures (arrays or Traversables) and $processDirectoryIterator is a
DirectoryIterator resulted after applying
the lamba to each of the SplFileObjects contained.
I know right now we have FilterIterator as an equivalent to
array_filter() for Iterators and we could implement our
own Functional classes but that means a new class for situations where a
simple lambda could do the job
just as well.
I hope my proposal makes sense.
P.S. I introduced a SplFunctional function just to skip the
instantiation of the object.
On 10/28/2008 15:16, Lars Strojny wrote:
Hi Andrei,
Am Montag, den 27.10.2008, 11:34 -0700 schrieb Andrei Zmievski:
[...]
I would say "no" for 5.3. But for 6 it would be fantastic to have all
array-related
operations supporting ArrayAccess interface, where possible.
+1 for this.
cu, Lars
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