Re: Patch-tastic!
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Wed, 05 Jun 2002 14:39:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Patch-tastic! | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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> > The latest one changes some operators.
>
> Nice, but why not overload + for strings to do the concatenation?
Doing that would be ambiguous, to say the least. PHP automatically
converts operand types with arithmetic + operator. What would you expect
the result of the following expressions to be:
"1" + "2"
1 + "2"
"2" + $a
-Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/
* 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. *