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Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 15:11:16 -0300
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] idea: implement a Comparable interface
From: drgomesp@gmail.com (Daniel Ribeiro)

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Its kinda useless feature for PHP.


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2013/5/7 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>

> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It'd be nice if, when doing $objA > $objB, that that'd invoke
> > $objA->__compareTo($objB) or something, much like Java's Comparable
> > interface.
> >
>
> Do you have examples of what this would be useful for? The two things that
> come to mind are DateTime (which can do this anyway as it's an internal
> class) and classes for bignums or something like that (which are probably
> also better implemented internally). So I'm not sure how much use there is
> for this.
>
> Nikita
>

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