Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14566 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6132 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Feb 2005 11:29:56 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6117 invoked by uid 1007); 3 Feb 2005 11:29:56 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net, derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:29:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20050203122955.292e6da9@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050201111730.0299da70@localhost> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.0cvs1.1 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 84.154.3.172 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Operators overloading] PHP 5.1 From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye) On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:47:13 +0100 (CET) derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > > Derick Rethans wrote: > > > Use C++/Java if you want this. > > > > Java does not support operator overloading. > > So, that means PHP shouldn't get it either, right? ;-) As I already asked in the past, I'm in favour to have them for intern usage only (understand used by extension). As we already for propoerties read or write. For those who do not know, you have no way to know that you in a ++, -- call. At least for ++,-- and friends. A typical usage could be data that fits in a defined range (ie date/time values). Regards, --Pierre