Re: Autoboxing in php 5.1

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ante Drnasin wrote: > 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... But there is no good reason why we should add this. > > 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+$b); > } function add($a, $b) { return (float)($a + $b); } nothing new to add here... Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org