Re: RFC Operator Overloading in Userspace
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:48:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RFC Operator Overloading in Userspace | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Sara Golemon 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).
>
> 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.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator-overloading
"Limiting Issue: Greater/Lesser are not distinct"
That should be addressed in the engine first too (or with) this change.
However, operator overloading...
cheers,
Derick