Re: Patch: Marking DateTime Instances Immutable
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:01:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Patch: Marking DateTime Instances Immutable | ||
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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:02 PM, troels knak-nielsen <troelskn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:
>> So currently preferred over my patch are two solutions:
>>
>> 1. Just create a DateTimeValue object that is immutable, not optimizing PHP to handle it
>> with efficient garbage collection.
>> 2. One step further, add a "static class DateTimeValue" like syntax that creates
>> an immutable class.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> I'd prefer BC breakage. DateTimeValue just doesn't have a good ring to
> it. Besides, having two both a mutable and an immutable version at the
> same time is bound to cause confusion.
It is not only about date but about create value type. There are
plenty of good usages for such thing.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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