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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Operator Overrides -- Lite Edition
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:31:03 +0900
Message-ID: <1E19168D-BA9F-488E-825D-C2D94666450B@sakiot.com>
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Cc: "Gina P. Banyard" <internals@gpb.moe>, internals@lists.php.net
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To: Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes>
From: saki@sakiot.com (Saki Takamachi)

Hi,

>> It seems like the "hack" I mentioned is still possible, am I misunderstan=
ding something?
>=20
> That=E2=80=99s always going to be a possibility, no matter what we do or h=
ow we do it. I think it would be a rather pointless hack now that I can run t=
he code. For the most part, the engine treats these as numbers and trying to=
 dodge that will land you in hot water eventually.=20

I'm not sure. Does this mean that such "hack" is unavoidable?

And I don't really understand what "pointless hack" means. This would make s=
ense if operator overloading was already allowed, but it isn't.

>> And I don't understand the purpose of polyfills at all. If you're not usi=
ng the GMP extensions and can't do operator overloading, won't you just have=
 a class with protected methods that are never used and don't actually do an=
ything?
>=20
> Ah, that could probably be clearer in the RFC, but you have to make it pub=
lic to be able to use it.
>=20
> It=E2=80=99s a bit clunky to use without the extension, but that=E2=80=99s=
 mostly because I didn=E2=80=99t want to get into OperandPosition from Jorda=
n=E2=80=99s RFC. Many people were confused about it, so I=E2=80=99m just avo=
iding it.

This is very confusing me. Why does this need to be a child class of GMP?

Regards,

Saki=