Re: Any plans of a completely object oriented version of PHP?
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 09 Jan 2001 21:09:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Any plans of a completely object oriented version of PHP? | ||
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> I really like all the features of PHP, but it seems to me that the function
> names are becoming more and more confusing. The best example is that all the
> new array function start with array_, but for compatibility reasons the old
> ones don't follow this rule.
>
> I guess it would be possible to write a large include file that could work
> as an object wrapper for all the functions i PHP, but that would probably
> slow thigs down quite a bit.
>
> Does anyone know if there ever will be a completely object orient version of
> PHP?
There might be minor enhancements here and there to the OO, but a
completely rewrite to have an OO-only PHP, no chance.
> P.S.: Why do most of the postings on the news server start with [PHP] or so?
> Is there a webinterface somewhere, that adds them?
The mailing list software adds them. They are handy for people who like
to visually scan through large mailboxes.
-Rasmus