Re: wacky object idea

Zeev Suraski wrote: > PHP isn't a math language agreed > The limited positive power of operator overloading won't show in PHP, > and there's much more to lose than to gain agreed for from the perspective of PHP as it is most commonly used by now but not for the feature in general > In my opinion, the ability to fork isn't one of the nicer things about open > source, it's actually one of the worst things about it. But obviously, by > definition, everyone can decide for themselves. an actual fork is one of the worst things that can happen, but the possibility to do so is one of the concepts that keep a lot of projects on the trak and make a positive difference compared to closed products IMHO how many forks do you know of? i can right now think of three, where two of them led to better products on both branches while on the third the 'original' project finaly accepted the 'fork-off' as the better one and merged back into it ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 fax:-99