Re: [RFC] User Defined Operator Overloads (v0.6)

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, 20:12 Jordan LeDoux, <jordan.ledoux@gmail.com> wrote: > > RFC Link: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/user_defined_operator_overloads I'm not strongly opinionated on either approach (magic __add vs operator +) although I have a very slight preference to your propose operator + syntax, however despite very occasionally thinking that this would be a useful feature, I always start to think about all the awful ways this could be used, making debugging and reasoning about code harder, since unexpected magic behaviour can (and probably will be) introduced. The proposal is technically reasonable, pending consideration of reflection and so on, but I just think the desire to use this in ways it shouldn't be used will be too great, and we'll end up with horrendous complexity. Perhaps I'm too cynical. The only mitigation for unnecessary complexity I can think of is to force overloaded operators to be "arrow functions" to encourage only minimal code, e.g. operator +(Number $other, OperandPosition $operandPos): Number => return new Number ($this->value + $other->value);