I’m not saying this is a good idea, but it’s an idea. 😉
Problem: array in PHP does not communicate intent well, especially it’s not clear if it’s a list or a hash map.
Solution: Run this:
use ArrayObject as dict; use SplDoublyLinkedList as dlist; // Better name? use SplFixedArray as vec; The point here is to use dict for hash maps, dlist for lists with unknown length, and vec for lists with fixed length.
class_alias cannot be run on built-in classes, so the only way to make the aliases global is to create dummy classes which inherit from them.
Of course it would be interesting to see how performance were affected. I assume memory consumption would go up a little bit, for the object initialization? Otherwise i expect it to be pretty much the same as for array, except for really, really big fixed-length arrays which have better performance.
(Possible solution to my ranty thread hear: https://old.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/f9xmfg/splitting_array_into_list_and_dict/)
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