Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14585 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10681 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Feb 2005 19:18:45 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10387 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2005 19:18:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 19:18:42 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([80.74.107.235:56403] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD (r4105:4106)) with SMTP id EB/E2-10528-01972024 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:18:42 -0500 Received: (qmail 18075 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2005 19:18:36 -0000 Received: from shire.zend.office (10.1.2.160) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 3 Feb 2005 19:18:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:18:36 +0200 (IST) X-X-Sender: frodo@shire.zend.office To: Terje Sletteb? cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20050201111730.0299da70@localhost> <02d801c50a0c$93bb7b30$a900000a@adstate.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1 - operator overloading From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) JT>>> Why would it be ok there, but not in PHP? It also exists in other JT>>scripting > languages, such as Python and Perl. BTW, I don't remember anything useful done with operator overloading on Perl. I must say I wrote a lot of Perl when nothing like Perl 6 existed, so I may be somewhat behind, but still I find it hard to imagine why Perl (at least if we speak of Perl 4/5) would need one. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115