Re: RFC: Comparable interface

(Omnibus reply, since Johannes's original e-mail hasn't yet dropped into my ever-so-flaky mail setup. I have read it in full on news.php.net, though.) > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Johannes Schlüter wrote: >> What is this "more interesting stuff to come"? Nothing that's likely to be ready before the forthcoming release cycle. I really did just want the RFC writing practice, since I haven't done one within PHP's structure before. :) >> (*) Right now it is quite clear what happens if you read >>      $a == $b >> there are a few edge cases (0 == "100000 mails ina thread") but overall >> quite clear. With your patch "anything" might happen, which is hard to >> detect as we don't enforce strong typing, which would give a hint. Sure, but I think by that argument interfaces like Countable, Traversable and ArrayAccess would be out too. It is syntactic sugar, but I think it's useful syntactic sugar. One of the examples I toyed with tossing into the RFC was a date class, but I figured the argument against that is the obvious one of "people would use DateTime anyway". I think there are a range of potential uses here. 2010/9/30 Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>: > It sounds a little bit like operator over loading to me... I guess it is in a sense, since the comparison operators are by definition operators. I don't really see this is as starting any sort of slippery slope towards a full operator overloading implementation, though -- it's limited in scope, and really seems like a small, logical feature to make objects a little bit more useful to me. Adam