Re: OO wrappers (was : Need 1 more vote for Image_IPTC class)

El Mar 08 Abr 2003 10:45, Lukas Smith escribió: > > From: Xavier Noguer [mailto:xnoguer@rezebra.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:38 PM > > I'm not following you. I don't see how: > > Maybe I am not following that Rasmus and you are saying either :-) > > > $foo = new Foo(); > > $foo->bared(); > > > > is better than: > > > > $foo = foo_create(); > > foo_bared($foo); > > > > I'm talking about plain wrappers, wrappers that don't add any > > functionality > > to the one provided by the original php extension they are wrapping. > > I did not look at the details of the class from which this thread > originated, but if I understood the issue correctly this class does add > functionality beyond what the PHP implementation does. That's true. I think Rasmus's idea was why not add this functionality directly into php's iptc code (see ext/standard/iptc.c). > Of course there is no reason to wrap PHP native functionality just to > make everything PEAR CS compatible. PEAR aims to extend PHP and not to > wrap all of PHP functionality into a different API. That was my point. Xavier