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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Autoboxing in php 5.1
From: ante.dfg@moj.net (Ante Drnasin)

Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005, Ante Drnasin wrote:
> 
>>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...
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> - Andrei

Why not?

Because it would be a great asset to the new OOP model in PHP 5....
Because the new OOP model is great and I don't think it shouldn't stop 
there....
Because it would be great if the choice is left to the end user...

We already have OOP freaks (including this one) and I just love the idea
to have something like

function Add($a, $b) {
   return new Float($a+$b);
}

print(Add(new Integer(5), new Float(5.7)));

just my $.02