Opinions / Votes Needed

Afternoon all, I'd love to get some votes from my fellow developers on the following, and indeed some opinions (especially from those who disagree). Recently I've been running in to a lot of frustrations with PHP when dealing with Classes and Objects. Personally I strongly feel that these need added in to PHP 6, for multiple reasons. I don't think the scope of this discussion covers the syntax of any implementation, just if it needs implemented or not. a: Optional Static Typing I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type properties, parameters, return types etc (in classes) I know there is type hinting but it's just not enough to do what one needs. Additionally support for staticly typing primatives. Here's an example: <?php class Example { private ClassName $obj; // class typed property public bool $primativeBool; // primative typed property // typed returns public function getObj() ClassName {

    return $this->obj;

} // already implemented public function setObj(ClassName $obj) {

    $this->obj = $obj;

} // privative type hint (not implemented) public function setPrimativeBool(bool $primativeBool) {

    $this->primativeBool = $primativeBool;

} public function someMethod() { // also for variables VariableType $variable = new VariableType(); } } ?> b: Object superclass A base class type which all objects automagically extend, with (if nothing else) a unique id / hashcode for each object (much like the Java Object class). Failing this some form of function to get a unique reference string for any variable. Example <?php $someClassInstance = new SomeClass(); // method on all objects that returns a unique // id for that object $objectId = $someClassInstance->hashCode(); // or by a function $objectId = get_hashcode($someClassInstance); // and for variables $aString = 'some string'; $stringId = get_hashcode($aString); ?> c: Method overloading TBH it's something I could live without, whereas a/b aren't, but it would be an ideal addition to php? <?php class Example { public function someMethod(ClassType $arg0) { } public function someMethod(ClassType $arg0, bool $arg1) { } } ?> Thoughts, Opinions, Votes? would love to hear from you guys on this Regards!