Overloading

What about the addition of overloading for PHP 6? I am not totally up to date on the developments of the parameter type hints. I briefly read the meeting minutes for PHP 6. What about with the type hints we have now? class moo { public static function foo(FooClass $FooVar) { // do something } public static function foo(BooClass $BooVar) { // do something } } I have a project where we had to do a sort of pseudo overloading Class moo { /** * Accept the superclass or any of its sub classes */ public static function foo(FooSuperClass $Foo) { switch (true) { case $Foo instanceof FooClass: $method = 'fooFoo'; break; case $Foo instanceof BooClass: $method = 'fooBoo'; break; default: throw new Exception('Unrecognized type: ' . get_class($Foo)); break; } call_user_func(array(self, $method), $Foo); } private static function fooFoo(FooClass $FooVar) { // do something } private static function fooBoo(BooClass $BooVar) { // do something } } Mark