Re: idea: implement a Comparable interface

Hi! > I wrote https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparable a couple of years > ago — > there's a patch there that would probably still apply without too much > work to master. About the only difference was that I didn't double > underscore the magic method (in line with both Java and PHP interfaces > like Countable). Overriding < and > isn't the biggest issue, even though BC issues with conversions may definitely be a surprise. Bug biggest one is ==, which may have a lot of very non-trivial effects if you make == return "equals" when other functions (such as searches, hashes, etc.) may treat them as not equal. It is quite a complex thing which is rife with unexpected side effects, so I think it would be better if it were explicit. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227