Re: wacky object idea

Zeev Suraski wrote: > These are more or less the only text-book examples that there are; It's no > coincidence that these are ALWAYS the examples given for overloaded > operators. For most part, operator overloading is bad, and if the price is > losing 'neat' notation for complex numbers, it's a worthy price, IMHO. won't need them in PHP, sure, but as somone who has done developement on scientific and engineering applications i have to *strongly* disagree with the argumentation above users who can really benefit from a given feature should not be punished for the only reason that others might misuse it to shoot themselves in the foot -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 fax:-99