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Subject: function overloading
From: php@tutteli.ch ("Robert Stoll")

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Heya, 

 

I would like to know If it is somehow possible to overload existing functions by extensions. And if it is possible, are
there already some extension doing it?

I am not talking about the magic __call function. I am talking about something like: let's assume GMP has overloaded the
function "abs" and therefore one can write:
$n = gmp_init(-12345678901234567890);
abs($n+ 2);  // instead of using gmp_abs

 

I know that GMP has overloaded operators so it doesn't seem so far that overloading functions is possible as well.

 

I hope someone can help me.

 

Cheers,

Robert




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