Re: Proposed updates and extensions to the MySQL extension
| From: | Markus Fischer | Date: | Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:48:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposed updates and extensions to the MySQL extension | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:39:02PM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote :
> On Thursday 03 January 2002 2:18 pm, Markus Fischer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:06:23PM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote :
> > > Sounds good to me except for the OO wrappers.
> > >
> > > Do we already have OO wrappers to anything else not in user land? - if so
> > > then I'm probably too late to make the point, but to me such a thing
> > > feels 'all wrong' and 'not php'. I'm particularly concerned
> > > that we don't
> > > create functionality which is only accessible by OO means.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because I suspect there are plenty of users who either don't know, dislike,
> or actively hate OO programming. PHP started as a procedural language and
> currently has OO as a 'bolt on' (I know this will change with ZE2), but it
> 'feels' mainly procedural.
The old API doesn't dissapear, so I see no problem with that.
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