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

Hello Hans, If you have such a patch you should definitively post it here so that we can hve a look. Most interesting to us is however the oerformance impact. As that was the main reason to go any further than adding return type hints. marcus Saturday, October 13, 2007, 10:47:23 PM, you wrote: > 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. >> >> Best regards, Marcus