Re: OO purism sucks - this is a rant for anyone who is allergic to that kind of thing...

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:01, John Meyer wrote: > John Nichel wrote: > > > > > Do what I do, and don't do OO. ;) > > > > In other words, do what works, realizing that 99 percent of the time > that you're doing indivdual sites, and ignore dogma? Hmm, what a concept! Other than basic inheritance and the namespace features provided by classes, I don't see much else that is critically useful. There's was a strange push for all kinds of advanced OO features in PHP5 and somehow that got some kind of ball rolling to make things more and more complicated. Other than the pass objects by reference by default feature of PHP5 and better constructor/destructor support... the rest is just tooth decaying candy... and Jochem seems to be getting cavities it seems -- time to floss and brush the crud away ;) One of my biggest peeves about stuff changed that worked but wasn't necessarily purist... not letting values be passed to functions expecting a reference parameter. I mean really, PHP knows it's a literal, so why can't it just make it safe. Ugh. Nope, now we gotta add an extra line of userspace code to first assign the value to a variable to do exactly what PHP could so much faster do for us. Similarly functions returning references. Used to be you could return a null or false value on encountering a problem... but noooooo, now you have to spank youself and write $retValue = null; return $retValue. *pfffft*. BTW, I still love PHP :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'