Re: Re: Multi-Method Dispatch in PHP 5.1?
| From: | Jevon Wright | Date: | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:14:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Multi-Method Dispatch in PHP 5.1? | ||
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But at the same time, it would be nice to have a standardised multi-method
syntax or code - or users might develop their own weird and wacky,
inconsistent ways of implementing it. Perhaps the code submitted before
could be included in the PHP documentation, telling users on how they could
emulate this style of code?
Jevon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com>
To: "Christian Schneider" <cschneid@cschneid.com>; "Michael Walter"
<cm@leetspeak.org>
Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Multi-Method Dispatch in PHP 5.1?
> I don't want to prolong this discussion but I agree with the people who
are
> against multi-method dispatch. I don't think it makes much sense in PHP,
> and I think that in the few places where someone really feels they need
it,
> it can be implemented in user-land. It's just going to complicate the
> language for a small minority of people who feel they need this feature.
>
> Andi
>
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