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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Autoboxing in php 5.1
From: ante.dfg@moj.net (Ante Drnasin)

Hi Marcus and thanx for the explanation....

And I agree that PHP is very loose which is his strong part but
exactly because of that I think it would be nice if the end-user can have
the ability to work with primitives like they were objects...

I didn't want to suggest that PHP should implement Autoboxing as JAVA
but I did like the concept of having objects for primitive types....


Marcus Boerger wrote:
> Hello Ante,
> 
>   autoboxing is an ugly java 1.5 workarount to enable storage of base
> tyoes in containers. There this trick is necessary because as always
> in java everything must be an 'Object'. In contrast PHP is a loosly
> typed language where a container aka array can store any type. Apart
> from that as with java there is no user space enabled way to implement
> such autoboxing types and even the java way of building it into the
> engine is not supported and won't be.
> 
> regards
> marcus
> 
> Monday, February 7, 2005, 3:21:59 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>I was wondering if anyone can comment on this idea
>>cause I think it would be a great asset to PHP and to OOP in PHP..
> 
> 
>>example:
> 
> 
>>$b = 4;
>>$a = new Integer(4);
> 
> 
>>if($a == $b) {
>>    //bla bla
>>}
> 
> 
>>Other classes would include String(), Integer(), Boolean() ... and so on...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>