[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard basic_functions.c formatted_print.c php_string.h From: Andrei Zmievski (andrei <email protected>)
Date: 08/07/01

On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Do you really think it's worth it? People will use features which are
> available. I don't think it's the right thing to allow them to write code
> which is *much* slower than the old way when it usually doesn't give you
> much advantage over the old way.
> Anyway, if you guys think it's really needed, so be it. I just think it's
> kind of slow and I personally think we should not encourage people to pass
> arguments with arrays. We're doing this in far too many places for my taste.

We've been over this before and my point of view has not really changed:
having functions like this in PHP is not a bad thing, because people
will usually figure out what suits their needs performance-wise and
otherwise.

-Andrei
* Ethernet n.: something used to catch the etherbunny. * 

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