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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:41:27 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Autoboxing in php 5.1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

At 09:08 AM 2/10/2005 +0100, Ante Drnasin wrote:
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)));

I don't think we should support it just because you're an OOP freak and 
think it's cool.
Actually I see no good reason to do it in PHP. A good reason to have it in 
Java is because it gives you the option to also set it to NULL. In PHP you 
don't have that  problem.
It goes very much against the PHP spirit of dynamic typing and just bloats 
things.
(/me having done a huge project in J2EE a while ago where moving from large 
composite objects using classes like Integers to native types solved 
serious scalability problems :)


Andi