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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:25:16 +0200
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Pseudo-objects (methods on arrays, strings, etc.)
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Rasmus,

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> This makes no sense to me either. How does it let us clean the APIs? Can
> you give an example? I have one:
>
> $a = -5;
> $b = "-5";
>
> echo $a->abs();  // Outputs 5
> echo $b->abs();  // should still output 5
>
> What has been cleaned here over:
>
> echo abs($a);
> echo abs($b);

Heh, here is another example where it makes even less sense: time();

sigh.

More seriously... we are not talking about these APIs and I am sure
you know which one I refer to, like the string API and the like.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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