Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15689&edit=1

 ID:                 15689
 Updated by:         [email protected]
 Reported by:        Xuefer at 21cn dot com
 Summary:            more variable type should be added
-Status:             Open
+Status:             Wont fix
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
-Package:            Feature/Change Request
+Package:            *General Issues
 PHP Version:        4.1.1
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Rather opposite: We should remove all types and make everything classes
and objects. :) Won't happen.


Previous Comments:
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[2002-02-23 11:29:38] Xuefer at 21cn dot com

php class has no `operator` behave like c++

so, it's quite different between user-defined-object and
internal-variable-type



i suggest that wide-string type should be added.

which behave like wchar_t in vc, but more powerful



wide-string is not that mbstring

mbstring is an extension not internal type



every char of wide-string is wide-char(wchar), both ascii and
multibyte-char

there's also a bunch of wide-string operating function in i18n

mbstring is so complexity that use more cpu-time

wide-string take more memory but simple to process



samples:

$str = "string"; // This is a normal string

$wstr = L"string"; // This is a wide-string

echo strlen($str); // 6

echo strlen($wstr); // also 6

echo memsize($wstr); // 6

echo memsize($wstr); // 12

echo $str == $wstr; // true

echo $str === $wstr; // false



"\x20"; // normal string

L"\x20"; // wide-string

L"\x4c3a"; // wide-string



and

echo preg_replace(L"/abc/", "def", "abcdef");

should also works for matching wide-string

if (strpos(L"abc", L"def") === false) .....;



see? quite different from "mbstring"

but.. if adding wchar_t support to every string function make it slower,
i'd like to have a set of "w" prefix functions such as wstrcmp wstrpos
wpreg_replace

not "mb" :p



if php preferer mbstring rather than wchar_t

at least, make mbstring internal, not as extension.

when compiled without mbstring, all mbstring-type is processed exactly
like normal string.



that's all

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