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Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /ext/standard array.c From: Moriyoshi Koizumi (moriyoshi <email protected>)
Date: 11/23/02

I think the "step" option which you added is quite useful in every case.
Why didn't you merge into the branch? there seems no BC problem about it.

Moriyoshi

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 03:28:45AM +0900, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
>
> > Hmm, since nothing is mentioned about the rule of character sequence
> > generation in the manual, I don't think it's so necessary. IMO this new
> > feature introduced in 4.1.0 should not be included in the first place
> > because it broke backwards compatibilities pretty much as one of the user
> > contributed notes says and its behaviour is also as unexpectable as the
> > number of charset - encoding mappings out there.
>
> Yes, I can see that causing problems. I think it's necessary to leave
> the capability to generate character sequences in there now, though,
> for all sorts of backwards-compatibility reasons.
>
> My change to range() (the addition of the "step" parameter) was
> primarily inspired by Python's range() function, described here:
>
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-47
>
> The Python version does not handle characters, which (as we both
> agree) is the "better" implementation.
>
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