On Wed, January 30, 2008 9:42 pm, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 7:58 PM, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>> I don't use SPL because it makes my head spin to read it, and I
>> never
>> ever try to do something as silly as iterate over a *LARGE* array in
>> end-user pages.
>
> are there pages where you iterate over the same 'small' array more
> than
> once?

No.

> spl will definitely beat out the foreach performance over the
> arrays.

The performance is irrelevant unless it's the bottleneck, which it's not.

> its really not that bad to learn, and once you have it down, its so
> easy.
> you can decorate one thing w/ another to get new behavior at runtime.
> suppose you have a structure, you want to get some stuff out of it.
> ok,
> iterate over it, but wait you dont want all of it, wrap it in a
> FilterIterator,
> but wait, you might need those results again, wrap it in a
> CachingIterator.
> not only is the library seamless, but its faster than the stock stuff.
> and
> it has lots of other useful features as well, besides the iterators.

I tried several times to use SPL and SPL-like frameworks.

I always felt confused by the names, no matter how long I used them...

"You are in a maze of twisty dark passages, all alike."

:-)

ymmv

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On Jan 30, 2008 7:21 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> Greg's my hero of the day - even if he has been banging the Ruby drum on
> the PHP Stage half the night ;-)

PHP is a great language. I don't plan to stop using it anytime soon.


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