The DX Files: Abandon Anonymous Arrays of...
Posted on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 12:07 by Barry Jaspan
This is part three of my series, The DX Files: Improving Drupal Developer Experience. This time, I’m suggesting changing some of Drupal’s most basic data structures and APIs by replacing anonymous arrays with well-defined data structures. I fully expect lots of disagreement.
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I disagree! Anonymous arrays
I disagree!
Anonymous arrays is a great way to do things quick and dirty. If I want type-safe and well defined (in academic means) code, I use JAVA not PHP. If I want to get a quick result I use Drupal not JSF.
Why change that?
And - changing basic data structures will make lot's of written and tested code unusable. That would be a step to kick Drupal out of serious IT business.
"some of Drupal’s most
"some of Drupal’s most basic data structures"
What did you have in mind? I am sure I would agree with some, although we could refactor core for the next 2 years and still have tons of work to do.