Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: TextIterator changes

TextIterator does not implement Iterator interface, only Traversable. 
It just happens to have functions of the same name as Iterator.

-Andrei

On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Michael Wallner wrote:

> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>> I am working on implementing BreakIterator API [1]. I considered two 
>> approaches: making a separate class or merging the API into the 
>> existing TextIterator. Having a separate class would be a bit 
>> cleaner, but I can see people wanting to use it in foreach(), and 
>> since TextIterator already provides a lot of BreakIterator's 
>> functionality, I decided that merging would be the best option. 
>> However, there is an overlap between the BreakIterator API and the 
>> current TextIterator one, so there will have to be some changes.
>> 1. TextIterator::current() signature will change from:
>>    mixed current()
>> to:
>>    mixed current(integer &$offset)
>
> This will raise the same issue as we have/had with the reflection API:
> mike@honeybadger:~/build/php-unicode-debug$ cli -r 'interface 
> i{function f();} class c implements i{function f($a){}}'
>
> Fatal error: Declaration of c::f() must be compatible with that of 
> i::f() in Command line code on line 1
>
>
> Nah, don't look at me--I don't like that either.
>
>
>> 3. TextIterator::rewind() will be renamed to TextIterator::first() to 
>> conform to BreakIterator's first()/last() API.
>> So this is heads up. Let me know if you have a problem with this.
>
> Huh? Rename or alias? It can't implement Iterator if there's no 
> rewind() method.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Michael
>
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