Re: Opinion on function/method name overloading

Dominic Grostate wrote: > As I understand it, using Java-like function overloading in PHP is > undesirable due to hindrance in readability. > > However I'd like to get an opinion on whether it would be received more > favourably if it could provide an actual performance enhancement over hand > managed implementation's of detecting argument differences with variadic > and func_get_args. > > On to a more subjective argument, "naming things" is hard, and I think many > people would appreciate being able to reuse function/method names without > sacrificing type safety. Another issue besides what has already been mentioned in other replies is that PHP already has the concept of overloading[1]: | Overloading in PHP provides means to dynamically "create" properties | and methods. These dynamic entities are processed via magic methods | one can establish in a class for various action types. So at least another name would have to be chosen for either of both concepts. [1] <http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php> -- Christoph M. Becker