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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:12:08 -0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Overloading
From: saulovallory@gmail.com ("Saulo Vallory")

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I'm developing a PHP framework and had the same issue sometimes... I think
it was already discussed in the list, did you searched the archives?

Saulo

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Tinsley, Mark <MTinsley@dallasairmotive.com>
wrote:

> What about the addition of overloading for PHP 6?
>
> I am not totally up to date on the developments of the parameter type
> hints. I briefly read the meeting minutes for PHP 6.
>
> What about with the type hints we have now?
>
> class moo
> {
>
>    public static function foo(FooClass $FooVar)
>    {
>        // do something
>    }
>
>    public static function foo(BooClass $BooVar)
>    {
>        // do something
>    }
> }
>
>
> I have a project where we had to do a sort of pseudo overloading
>
> Class moo
> {
>    /**
>     * Accept the superclass or any of its sub classes
>     */
>    public static function foo(FooSuperClass $Foo)
>    {
>        switch (true)
>        {
>        case $Foo instanceof FooClass:
>            $method = 'fooFoo';
>            break;
>
>        case $Foo instanceof BooClass:
>            $method = 'fooBoo';
>            break;
>
>        default:
>            throw new Exception('Unrecognized type: ' .
> get_class($Foo));
>            break;
>        }
>
>        call_user_func(array(self, $method), $Foo);
>    }
>
>    private static function fooFoo(FooClass $FooVar)
>    {
>        // do something
>    }
>
>    private static function fooBoo(BooClass $BooVar)
>    {
>        // do something
>    }
> }
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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