Yeah, and don't forget goto, <?php=, removing magic_quotes_* and
register_globals, making the language completely case-sensitive,
etc, etc.
Just guess if any of that list will happen..ever? :)
--Jani
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, David Zülke wrote:
No offense, but before even thinking about operator overloading support,
really useful and crucial stuff like namespaces or Unicode support should be
tackled first.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Terje Slettebø [mailto:tslettebo@broadpark.no]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:18 PM
To: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1
From: "Jani Taskinen" <sniper@iki.fi>
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Terje Slettebø wrote:
Why would it be ok there, but not in PHP? It also exists in other
scripting
languages, such as Python and Perl.
PHP is not Perl or Python or <add-your-favorite-language-here>.
That's not an argument against operator overloading. The question is why
would it not be appropriate for PHP? Dynamic typing has been mentioned,
and
when I said that it exists in other dynamically typed languages, as well,
I
get the reply that "PHP is not language xxx". What kind of reply is that?!
Ilia Alshanetsky suggested in a posting that the PHP community in general
might not be ready for its safe introduction (i.e. they would typically
misuse it). I hope it's not the case; after all, it's not such an
"advanced"
feature, when several mainstream languages has it.
Regards,
Terje
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