Re: Pseudo-objects (methods on arrays, strings, etc.)
| From: | Andrew Faulds | Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:38:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Pseudo-objects (methods on arrays, strings, etc.) | ||
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I'm curious, how do I make my objects have scalar passing semantics, then?
On Jul 20, 2012 12:35 AM, "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb@googlemail.com>wrote:
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>> I never said treat them as objects. I said give them methods. Not the
>> same thing.
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> Fair enough, noone is talking about giving them properties or formal class
> definitions.
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>> And what do you mean by "technical debt"?
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> I mean that we'll never escape the functional side of PHP, nor should we
> try to. So we're not talking about replacing a set of APIs, we're talking
> about duplicating APIs which already exist. More than that, we're talking
> about creating a whole new branch of primitive handling in order to give
> them methods without actually giving them class methods. I'm not saying
> that any of this is difficult to do, I'm asking if it actually gains us
> anything which justifies doubling the number of implementations which deal
> with string, array, and scalar operation.
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> Given that you can accomplish this with a PECL extension, my answer is
> "No, it doesn't."
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> -Sara
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