Re: What's wrong the __autoload()?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:17:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What's wrong the __autoload()? | ||
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On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:26 -0500, Greg Donald wrote:
> On 3/12/08, Richard Heyes <richardh@phpguru.org> wrote:
> > It's a perfectly viable business reason.
>
> No it's not. I guess you need a "business" scenario to wrap your head
> around the idiocy.
>
> Here you go:
>
> Imagine at Blizzard one morning, "Hey guys, we're not going to be able
> to use function pointers on the new Diablo III like we had planned to
> do, the new hires down the hall don't understand them very well so
> just don't use them, OK?"
This is not a valid comparison. The above is the replacement of one
convention with another convention. It is not a case of circumventing a
convention to achieve a specific, and probably desired outcome.
Cheers,
Rob.
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