AW: [PHP-DEV] Method overloading by method signature

Why would it be incompatible with php's dynamic nature? (I already heard many people saying "that this is not the php way") But why ? Don't you like it or do you think it is just not possible to be implemented in php? I could provide a patch that makes it possible (even with complete visibility and inheritance rules). We already use it and it saves us a lot of code. I think it is better than the '$x = "defaultValue"' kind of way to accept different count and types of parameters because it is MUCH more expressive and intuitive. It wouldn't even break backward compatibility beause it is just "syntactical sugar" to checking the variable types manually and then dispatching to the right behaviour. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alexey Zakhlestin [mailto:indeyets@gmail.com] Gesendet: Samstag, 13. Oktober 2007 22:22 An: Hans Moog Cc: internals@lists.php.net Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] Method overloading by method signature Hans, such overloading would be incompatible with php's dynamic nature As far as I remember, even type-hinting for basic-types (strings, integers) was rejected On 10/13/07, Hans Moog <hans.moog@mkj-computing.de> wrote: > Will method overloading by method signature be implemented in php6 or > even php 5.3? > > > > Example: > > <?php > > namespace xyz; > > > > import core::TestClass; > > > > class Test extends TestClass { > > public string function test(integer $int) { > > return "Hi"; > } > > > > public integer function test(string $string, integer $int) { > > return $int; > } > } > > ?> > > > > I think this would be a very big advantage and would help developers to > write better code. > > -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/