Re: idea: implement a Comparable interface

Classes without the ability to overload the comparison operator could be considered kinda useless as well. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Ribeiro <drgomesp@gmail.com> wrote: > Its kinda useless feature for PHP. > > > Daniel Ribeiro Gomes Pereira > Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/drgomesp> | > > Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000407054469> > | LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-ribeiro-gomes/21/414/39> > iPhone: +55 (48) 9111-0931 > > > 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 > > >