Re: Autoboxing in php 5.1
| From: | Ron Korving | Date: | Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:30:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Autoboxing in php 5.1 | ||
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Man, that's the primary reason I don't like Java :)
You can't be serious :)
Ron
"Ante Drnasin" <ante.dfg@moj.net> wrote in message
news:20050210080546.52065.qmail@lists.php.net...
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, Ante Drnasin wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Marcus and thanx for the explanation....
> >>
> >>And I agree that PHP is very loose which is his strong part but
> >>exactly because of that I think it would be nice if the end-user can
have
> >>the ability to work with primitives like they were objects...
> >
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > - Andrei
>
> Why not?
>
> Because it would be a great asset to the new OOP model in PHP 5....
> Because the new OOP model is great and I don't think it shouldn't stop
> there....
> Because it would be great if the choice is left to the end user...
>
> We already have OOP freaks (including this one) and I just love the idea
> to have something like
>
> function Add($a, $b) {
> return new Float($a+$b);
> }
>
> print(Add(new Integer(5), new Float(5.7)));
>
> just my $.02