Re: RFC Operator Overloading in Userspace

Hi Sara and Patricio, On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > Patricio Tarantino has asked me to help him propose Operator > Overloading in PHP 7.1 (based in part on my operator extension in > PECL). I think we can expose this to usespace as magic methods with > very little overhead (the runtime check and dispatch is already there, > after all). +1 to moving this out of PECL and into the engine. > I do think that the "Future Expansion" section bears following through > with as well, but the basic set of methods already hooked for GMP > would be a nice start. > Whoa, that's a big list of magic methods. I wonder if a generic dispatch magic method would be more developer friendly. Something like: public function __overload(string $operator, object $rhs = null); // $rhs === null iff op is unary Thanks! bishop