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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:18:47 +0200
Cc: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>,
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To: Stan Vassilev <sv_forums@fmethod.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A critique of PHP 6
From: jacob@oettinger.dk (Jacob Oettinger)


On 21/04/2010, at 16.03, Stan Vassilev wrote:
>=20
> Ahem. We all secretly know how it should've been from the very start. =
Pseudo-methods for the basic types.
>=20
> $array->merge($array2);
> $string->len();
>=20

Yes. Maybe implemented so that they can be called like functions in a =
namespace for each type with the "this" value as the first param. So =
that:

$array->merge($array2);
<=3D>
\array\merge($array, $array2);

and=20

\string\len($string);
<=3D>
$string->len();



Regards, Jacob=