Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:37 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Self-Sorting Lists Data Types

Sometimes you just need a list that'll put itself in order. You can do that by specifying a comparison method on a restricted list. Look out world, we're all alphabetical now with the LexicographicList.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:36 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Restricted Lists Data Types

Lists are handy, but what happens when you only want certain data in your list, and not others? Combine a list with a restrictions predicate, and you have a restricted list.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:36 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Stack Data Type

A stack is handy when you want to put things on hold, or you want to store stuff in a systemic way. They are used everywhere, but particularly useful in programming language design.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:35 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Queue Data Type

A queue is useful when you want everything to form a line from beginning to end. Pop off the end, and push in the front.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:34 PM EDT

Phabstractic: List Data Types

Lists such as Stacks and Queues can be very useful in programming, from messaging queues, to keeping track of variable references and parsing.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Aug 13, 2016 09:33 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Restricted Set Data Type

A set can hold any kind of information allowable in a PHP variable. What happens if we combine a restrictions predicate with a set. We only allow certain data types to be in the set.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 30, 2016 11:18 PM EDT

Phabstracitc: Structure Data Type

Structures are a data structure supported by many different languages. The usefulness I think of this particular abstract data type is the ability to be accessed as an array, enabling TaggedUnions to act like normal variables.

You can read more about it at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 30, 2016 02:11 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Abstract Factory Pattern

The abstract factory pattern provides a way to encapsulate a group of individual factories that have a common theme without specifying their concrete classes.

There is more to see at this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 30, 2016 02:10 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Tagged Union Data Type

Many programming techniques and data structures – including rope (data structure), lazy evaluation, class hierarchy (see below), arbitrary-precision arithmetic, CDR coding, the indirection bit and other kinds of tagged pointers, etc. – are usually implemented using some sort of tagged union.

You can learn more from this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 30, 2016 02:10 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Restrictrictions Data Type (Predicate)

Filters are important and very useful objects, allowing values or other logic to be filtered in and out of a particular set of data. Restrictions.php offers a way to use type checking in PHP, but in a very flexible and dynamic way. This can be useful for defining lists or sets that only accept certain values, which is useful for code cohesiveness and can reduce error checking.

You can see this blog post for more information.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 22, 2016 08:18 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Set Data Type

Sets play an important role in lots of mathematical computations and theories. A set is a bag of values that aren't necessarily in any order, they just exist in the set, or not in the set. Sets can also be set so that they only have unique values. The Set data type in Phabstractic enables easy manipulation of these simple but deviously complex entities.

You can see this blog post for more information.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 22, 2016 08:16 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Array Utilities

PHP's built-in array utilities/functions aren't always coherent with objects and mixed data. These methods provide some functionality that the PHP functions provide, but with more granular internal control.

You can see this blog post for more information.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 18, 2016 08:05 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Identity Trait

Sometimes you have to generate a unique identifier to a piece of data amidst a sea of other data in a dynamic way. There are many ways of doing this, but the most effective is to just keep counting up and never counting down. At least I think it is.

It's pretty basic, but you can see this blog post for more information.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 18, 2016 01:19 AM EDT

Phabstractic: Type Enumeration

PHP has type checking, to a degree, but what if we could encapsulate the checking of multiple classes and data types into one place? The first steps to this is the identification of data types that are available in PHP.

For more information see this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 18, 2016 01:16 AM EDT

Phabstractic: Enumeration Data Type

PHP doesn't provide a means of an Enumeration data type like languages such as C, or Java. There is an obscure SplEnum, but that doesn't seem to have been followed up on much. I have provided what I believe to be a superior Enumeration class for data types.

For more information see this blog post.

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 12, 2016 09:58 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Configuration Trait

The thing about PHP and the mixin’s I’ve developed is that they are not necessarily a class, instead the idea is that they are a trait that offers a particular feature to another class. So you define a feature, something the class can do, such as logging, or being able to hold configurations (see below) and then you can add it to a particular class.

For more information see this blog post

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 09, 2016 04:40 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Registry Design Pattern

A registry design pattern has been added to the project. This provides a PHP class that is instantiated once and acts like an array. It uses the Singleton Trait Design Pattern to achieve the Singleton functionality.

For more information see this blog post

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 08, 2016 03:59 PM EDT

Phabstractic: Singleton Trait Design Pattern

A singleton design pattern has been added to the project. This provides a php trait that can be easily implemented to create a singleton class.

For more information see this blog post

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Asher Wolfstein posted an update — Jul 07, 2016 03:32 PM EDT

Phabstractic: None Data Type

The 'None' data type has been added to the project. This provides an alternative to returning values of 0, false, or null in an object-oriented fashion.

For more information see this blog post

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Asher Wolfstein started this project — Jul 07, 2016 03:28 PM EDT

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