Re: why interfaces ?

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 10:21 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > all, > > in recent weeks there has been a lot of arguing about what interfaces are, > arent (on php-general and now on the internals list as well) etc. etc. > > i am quite curious, why interfaces were added to the language in the first > place. note, i am not criticizing them, i am overjoyed that the language > has them, however i am curious about the history. is this something php > borrowed from java? does it have anything to do with 'entirely virtual > classes' in c++ ? i think that the history behind the addition of > interfaces to php, would shed a lot of light on their intended purpose for > use by php developers. The answer is in the archives. I haven't gone back to review them, but I remember vaguely they were originally going with multiple inheritance before they switched directions after much discussion and took the interface route instead. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP