Re: Custom object equality

On 18 Oct 2023, at 13:50, someniatko <someniatko@gmail.com> wrote: > There were already suggestions on the mailing list to allow "overloading" existing > == operator, and some suggestions went even as far as overloading > <, >= etc operators. Slightly off-topic, but concatenation? Just as a possible feature... for my sins I'm the database component maintainer for WordPress, and I'm currently getting wpdb::prepare() to work with the literal-string type, where I added support for escaping identifiers (field/table names). This function works like sprintf(), with the SQL being the $format argument, and then user values; from that it returns an SQL string with escaped values (yes, I know, parameterised queries are better, but we work with what we have)... developers often concatenate these together, but I was wondering if I could return a stringable value-object, so when they are concatenated, a new value-object could be created instead, so we can verify (ideally at runtime) that all values have been escaped correctly (and maybe use parameterised queries). Craig