Re: wacky object idea

thies@digicol.de wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:18:44AM +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > > Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > > Operator overloading is one of the uglier features in C++. I would say that was one of the best C++ features > Java did things > > > > better. Hardly Java is Brain dead, and all it's ecuses for not putting those features in are complete nonsense. > Code is much more readable and maintainable when it uses interfaces > > > > and not "object overloading". The revese is true. > You might lose a lot of what PHP is about > > > > when implementing this "cool" feature. You might move PHP coders into > > > > writing unreadable code. > > > > > > This is one of the times when I completely agree with Andi. We have > > > __string_value method support and I suppose it's a nice enough feature > > > for debugging, but I don't see it being used for much more than that. > > > Adding other kinds of automatic object conversions is just going to lead > > > to more mess. Andi is right when he says that using interfaces would be > > > a better approach. > > > > Hm, it I just changed my opinion on this as well (the C++ operator > > overlodaing comparison did the trick :-). I guess I'll just rename all > > the toString methods in PEAR to __string_value. > > plz be aware that __string_value() is only called when you > "print" the object (echo $myclass) and _not_ when you cast it to a > string ($b = (string)$myclass). i think we need to fix that! > > tc > > > > - Stig > > -- > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" > Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 > Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Francis Smit Knowledge By Design/OzTel Suite 201, 683 George st Sydney 2000 NSW http://www.kbd.com.au mailto:francis@kbd.com.au Tel: +61 2 9212 1399 Fax: +61 2 9212 5727 ___________________________________ m$: How can we stuff you up today?