Re: Re: [Zend Engine 2] PHP in the future

A couple of months ago it was agreed on how to get multiple inheritance like behavior in a way which could work with PHP. I just haven't had time to implement it yet. The talk was about aggregation of instances of classes with auto-proxy. So you'd do something like: class foo extends bar contains barbara, foobar { } $obj = new foo(); $obj->method(); /* would check foo and if method doesn't exist will auto-proxy to objects barbara and foobar in that order whatever matches first.*/ You could access the specific object by $obj->classname or $obj->barbara. Try and find it in the archives. Andi At 06:59 PM 6/6/2002 +0100, Dan Hardiker wrote:

I believe the OO level we have in ZE2 is the upper limit of what a scripting language should have. There's no doubt in my mind that going beyond that is going to complicate the language beyond what our average users want. I would have to disagree to this statement extremly. It would not complicate the language as those not interested would just ignore the new options and go along as normal. (i.e. all methods and variables being public by default) I sit in many PHP channels (IRC), and observe many class-based PHP networks (php-classes.org is one I monitor closely) and can say definatly that the majority of PHP users want *more* OO capabilities in PHP. Interfaces provide a simple framework for expansive web scripts, which currently can only be botched with extends... and multiple inheritance would help my current PHP (web-based) project. If these features are too complex for you to understand - ignore them! In my opinion the demand is certainly there, if a subset of people dont want to use it - we're not asking them to. What the masses are calling for (and they obviously are with the frequency of this kind of post appearing) is the option to decide. Although Im no expert on the PHP source code and the underlying ZE - is it really that complex to please everyone and give a choice? [for those concerned about the proposed stuff having performance impacts - then make it a configure option... --with-more-oop (or whatever)] -- Dan Hardiker [dhardiker@staff.firstcreative.net] ADAM Software & Systems Engineer First Creative Ltd -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php