Re: Method overloading by method signature

Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:47 +0200, "Timm Friebe" wrote: > function xpath(DomDocument $arg) { > return new DomXPath($arg); > } > > function xpath(XmlTree $arg) { > return new DomXPath($this->loadXML($arg->getSource()))); > } > > function xpath($arg) { // Untyped = default > if (!is_string($arg)) { > throw new IllegalArgumentException('Unsupported argument type'); > } > return new DomXPath($this->loadXML($arg)); > } > > == > > If we consider the readability argument only: Which one of the above more > readable? You decide:) Allowing an untyped version next to a typed one is imo the worst thing one can do: f I want to read the code and first see the untyped implementation I certainly go crazy while trying to debug the code. johannes