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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] some thoughts about php 6
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 29/01/2014 11:22, Kingsquare.nl - Robin Speekenbrink wrote:
> If people are really adamant in creating OO versions of string / array
> functions: nothing stops them from doing that in userspace today.

While it's possible to do in *extensions* (as someone else linked to), 
there's no way you could make anything remotely like this work in userspace:

$foo = 'Hello World';
$foo .= '!';
echo $foo->length;

I think that's more like what people mean by "OO-style strings".

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]