Re: idea: implement a Comparable interface
| From: | Daniel Ribeiro | Date: | Tue, 07 May 2013 18:11:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: idea: implement a Comparable interface | ||
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Its kinda useless feature for PHP.
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2013/5/7 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It'd be nice if, when doing $objA > $objB, that that'd invoke
> > $objA->__compareTo($objB) or something, much like Java's Comparable
> > interface.
> >
>
> Do you have examples of what this would be useful for? The two things that
> come to mind are DateTime (which can do this anyway as it's an internal
> class) and classes for bignums or something like that (which are probably
> also better implemented internally). So I'm not sure how much use there is
> for this.
>
> Nikita
>