Re: Discussion: String streams
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Tue, 22 Mar 2022 15:14:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Discussion: String streams | ||
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:38 AM Robert Landers <landers.robert@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> But why can't we have generic operator overloading in which case this could
> be completely built by libraries in userland?
>
I mean... honestly, I feel like I come back around to this very quickly.
Generic overloading gives us much more at the end of the day and allows the
people using PHP day in and day out to make the actual decisions about what
any of these APIs should look like.
So while I said I wanted to avoid the firestorm suggesting userspace
overloading would bring, maybe that's the question to ask:
Who's just a hard-nope on userspace operator overloading? If your reasons
go beyond foot-gun (and that is a valid reason), could you share what those
reasons are?
-Sara