Sam,
Just to be clear, I wasn't opposing pythonic generators. I was
opposing using this feature for that purpose. If we wanted
generators, I would suggest implementing them fully (as in adding a
`yield` statement).
However, that's not going to be as easy as it sounds, since what would
happen with a function like this:
function foo(array &$array) {
foreach ($array as $value) {
yield $value;
}
}
$array = array(1);
foreach (foo($array) as $value) {
$array[] = $value + 1;
}
Not saying it's not doable, just that it's not trivial to implement...
Anthony
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Samuel Giles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Anthony,
>
> Ok, I see that now. I know you're not necessarily saying what's been
> proposed is a good idea but I can see a benefit in pythonic style generators
> as a separate piece of functionality, implementing a yield function, has
> this ever been discussed before? My apologies if this is the case I've not
> seen it since I've been following this list.
>
> I know there is the SPL Iterator, but just as in the example you provided
> implementations *can* be verbose and convoluted.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Anthony Ferrara <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sam,
>>
>> I'm not saying it's a good idea, but this would allow for pythonic
>> style generators. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators
>>
>> Just pointing out one potential use-case...
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Samuel Giles <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > My major concern would be, how does this* really* add to PHP? Perhaps
>> > I'm
>> > missing the point, but what would this allow that can't be done in some
>> > form using well defined "patterns", for lack of a better word.
>> >
>> > I'm not keen on the idea of throwing things such as Interrupts either,
>> > it
>> > doesn't quite fit with their general use case.
>> >
>> > Sam
>
>
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