Re: [RFC] Comparable: the revenge

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Those of you with long memories will remember that I proposed a > Comparable interface way back in the pre-5.4 days, but withdrew it > when it became obvious that there was no consensus for it as a feature > and that a vote was likely to fail. > > RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparable > PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1097 > > Why reanimate it now, I hear you ask? I think that comparisons have > only become more prominent in the language: we now have a spaceship > operator for explicit comparisons, yet the behaviour of object > comparisons can be obscure, to say the least, and the user has no > control over how their objects are compared. > > At this stage, I intend to put this up for a vote on March 5 (vote > ending March 12), with the obvious endgame being that this would be > included in 7.0. > > Thanks, > Thanks you :) I like it. It is simple and straightforward. I agree with other that it is easily done using a simple function (Adam's) but I do not like it much, less clear. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org