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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:13:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Custom object equality
From: landers.robert@gmail.com (Robert Landers)

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 7:05=E2=80=AFPM Christian Schneider
<cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote:
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> Am 18.10.2023 um 18:42 schrieb Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>:
> > So the real question is: Would anyone who voted No on operator overload=
ing before vote Yes on it if it used ~=3D,  ~>, ~+, etc. instead?
>
> I confess that I'm not a fan of operator overloading for a language like =
PHP but introducing new operators on top of making them overloadable seems =
a bad idea. Operators have the problem of being hard to look up and prefixi=
ng them with ~ feels like the worst of both worlds.
>
> Regards,
> - Chris
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I suspect xdebug would work fine if you can't use the IDE to
ctrl-click on the operator. I highly suspect you'd never even use them
except in specific cases where it would feel natural to do so (such as
the money example, a units library, a matrix mathematics library, or a
real number field library).

Robert Landers
Software Engineer
Utrecht NL