Re: [php6] OOP resources

On 21 February 2014 20:07, Marc Bennewitz <php@marc-bennewitz.de> wrote: > Hi, > > here another idea for PHP 6 the simply means removing the datatype > "resource" because and convert current resources into classes/objects > as it's already done with GMP. > > Because resources are simply a pointer to a somewhere described data > structure - resources are the exactly the use case for objects. I'm a big fan of this idea in principle, resources have always struck me as just a messier way of dealing with objects. However, to go through every usage of the resource type an convert them is a mammoth task, because I don't there being any point in doing it unless the procedural APIs that use them are given an OO overhaul. The vast majority of the time they are used in the context of <resource_purpose_prefix>_action_name($resource, ...$args), and if they were converted to objects a $resource->action_name() method is what I would expect. The procedural APIs could still be maintained, much like MySQLi. I don't see the goal of completely removing the resource type as being practical or, considering how many PECL and custom extensions this would affect, sensible. However, I'd be all for a general push to convert/duplicate as many core resource-oriented APIs as possible to OO APIs. > To be bc current resources should be instances of an interface > "Resource" and the function "is_resource" would work similar as > "$resource instanceof Resource". And, more importantly, it will become a lot easier (in many cases, simply "possible") to determine what a "resource" is actually for. In reality is_resource() isn't hugely useful, I can't call fwrite() on a stream context resource, for example.