Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:38615 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 50681 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2008 14:51:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jun 2008 14:51:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 88.198.8.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 88.198.8.16 bigtime.backendmedia.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [88.198.8.16] ([88.198.8.16:45827] helo=bigtime.backendmedia.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BF/A5-20985-D7B52684 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:51:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098B31EBC014; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:54:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at backendmedia.com Received: from bigtime.backendmedia.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bigtime.backendmedia.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1jXikw4+6H+Q; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:54:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.80.139] (unknown [195.226.16.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mls@pooteeweet.org) by bigtime.backendmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493091EBC015; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:54:12 +0200 (CEST) To: Marcus Boerger In-Reply-To: <149395553.20080620162848@marcus-boerger.de> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <0489D0DE749FD2489EEB99455DEB6A7F08178926@svr-fp-exch.dalair.com> <149395553.20080620162848@marcus-boerger.de> Message-ID: <2E1B655C-B3A9-43A0-AA25-D025BFEC1269@pooteeweet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:50:47 +0200 Cc: "Tinsley, Mark" , internals@lists.php.net X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Overloading From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) On 20.06.2008, at 16:28, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Mark, > > we discussed overloading a hell lot of times an dthe conclusionj > always > and every single time has been NO. It would mean a large slowdown for > every single PHP application out there and it is not really that much > halpful. In fact it makes code less readable and maintainable so it > opposes the KISS (Keep It Simple Safe) approach of PHP. FYI, for future reference I at least added a link to the rfc page to this thread: http://wiki.php.net/rfc#declined regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith mls@pooteeweet.org