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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] User Defined Operator Overloads (v0.6)
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

On 12/17/21 9:43 AM, Matt Fonda wrote:
> Hi Jordan,
> 
> Thanks for the RFC. I have a couple questions:
> 
> Suppose I have classes Foo and Bar, and I want to support the following
> operations:
> 
> - Foo * Bar (returns Foo)
> - Bar * Foo (returns Foo)
> 
> If I understand correctly, there are three possible ways I could implement
> this:

And that's one of the reasons I feel so uneasy with this. When reading 
this code: $foo * $bar - how do I know which of the ways you took and 
where should I look for the code that is responsible for it? When I see 
$foo->times($bar) it's clear who's in charge and where I find the code. 
Terse code is nice but not at the expense of making it write-only.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com