Re: [Operators overloading] PHP 5.1

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:12:44 +0100 tslettebo@broadpark.no (Terje Slettebø) wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:47:13 +0100 (CET) > > derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > > Derick Rethans wrote: > > > > > Use C++/Java if you want this. > > > > > > > > Java does not support operator overloading. > > > > > > So, that means PHP shouldn't get it either, right? ;-) > > > > As I already asked in the past, I'm in favour to have them for > > intern usage only (understand used by extension). > > Internal in what way? And why? Available for extensions only (means also not in user land), like the get/set get_properties for objects. > > As we already for > > propoerties read or write. For those who do not know, you have > > no way to know that you in a ++, -- call. At least for ++,-- and > > friends. > > I'm not sure I understood the above, but if I understood it right, > why would that be? For now you cannot know if are in a '++' or a '--'. The operations (I have to check that again :) are: $b->a++; gives tmp = a; tmp = tmp+1; b->a = tmp; In my example (a date object, day being 31), at this I do not know if one is assigning 32 to the property or if it's the result of incrementation (or decrementation from 1 to 0). Regards, --Pierre