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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1
From: dz@bitxtender.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?David_Z=FClke?=)
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No offense, but before even thinking about operator overloading support,
really useful and crucial stuff like namespaces or Unicode support =
should be
tackled first.

David


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terje Sletteb=F8 [mailto:tslettebo@broadpark.no]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:18 PM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1
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> >From: "Jani Taskinen" <sniper@iki.fi>
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> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Terje Sletteb=F8 wrote:
> >
> > > Why would it be ok there, but not in PHP? It also exists in other
> scripting
> > > languages, such as Python and Perl.
> >
> >      PHP is not Perl or Python or <add-your-favorite-language-here>.
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> That's not an argument against operator overloading. The question is =
why
> would it not be appropriate for PHP? Dynamic typing has been =
mentioned,
> and
> when I said that it exists in other dynamically typed languages, as =
well,
> I
> get the reply that "PHP is not language xxx". What kind of reply is =
that?!
> Ilia Alshanetsky suggested in a posting that the PHP community in =
general
> might not be ready for its safe introduction (i.e. they would =
typically
> misuse it). I hope it's not the case; after all, it's not such an
> "advanced"
> feature, when several mainstream languages has it.
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> Regards,
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> Terje
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