Hello.
Just to bring more attention and get more opinions. I've created TT#903
for deprecating Keys. There is copy of ticket:
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(Background: I've spent few months trying to make Keys and Iterators
more sane)
There is excerpt from IRC log:
<bacek> chromatic: I've got excellent (fsvo) idea. Deprecate Keys at all.
<chromatic> What would replace them?
<bacek> Create NamespaceKey which will be used for Namespaces.
<bacek> Navigating over "ordinary" aggregates will be "manual"
<chromatic> The idea has merit.
<bacek> indeed.
No one uses $P0[foo;bar;baz]
It's almost impossible to implement and used correctly.
And behaviour is very dependant on HLL
<chromatic> It's not easy to manage in IMCC either.
<bacek> e.g. autovivify vs throwing exception.
So, NamespaceKey will has-a RSA
Simple, clean, comprehensible.
Remove a lot of code in Hash and Array to support Keys.
Simplify IMCC and future of PIRC (which doesn't support complex keys)
<chromatic> It's worth considering.
Actually NamespaceKey can be is-a RSA. Then creating it in pir will be
something like
$P0 = split ';', 'foo;bar;baz'
$P1 = new [NamespaceKey]
$P1 = $P0
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Bacek
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