Hi Sara, any progress with your RFC? Can't wait to see it.
Thanks
Jan Dolecek
juzna...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:
> Retrying this with reply-to-all. :)
>
> I think it's an awesome moment for PHP and HipHop to work together! :)
> I'll summarize what we have so far into an RFC.
>
> -Sara
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Lars Strojny <l...@strojny.net> wrote:
> > Hey Sara,
> >
> > can you already show us how your take on Generics would look like? Maybe
> this is a good moment for HipHop and PHP to do something together.
> >
> > Am 06.11.2012 um 04:14 schrieb Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net>:
> >
> >> Sorry to be late to the conversation, but fwiw, HipHop is adding
> >> Generics (and some other cool things) to our PHP implementation. We
> >> plan to provide a PHP equivalent implementation in the form of a
> >> pre-processor extension which can live in PECL. The implementation
> >> would of course be cleaner if done directly in the engine, but with
> >> APC the performance hit of doing an extra transformation pass should
> >> disappear. Hopefully this satisfies both the want for Java/C++-like
> >> syntax without "polluting" the language.
> >>
> >> -Sara
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Etienne Kneuss <col...@php.net> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Levi Morrison <
> morrison.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> Especially if the ability was afforded to arrays as well (function
> >>>>>> foo(array<Bar> $array){})...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This would require O(n) runtime tests, I would definitely not go
> there.
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually, it does not require O(n) runtime tests. The solution is
> >>>> simple: store the type when it is created. Whenever an element is
> >>>> added, make sure it matches the correct type. All this does is add
> >>>> some flat overhead.
> >>>
> >>> If you test every time you add one element, that's still O(n) tests
> >>> where n is the size of the array, the only benefit is that it is not
> >>> checked for each calls to a function. But now we are talking about
> >>> attaching non-trivial types to variables, and non-trivial checks in a
> >>> lot of places (think references etc..), let's not go there...
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I am also supportive of the idea of having generics, but I am not sure
> >>>> that the work it would take is worth it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> http://www.colder.ch
> >>>
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