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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:45:59 -0800
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To: Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Comparable: the revenge
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Those of you with long memories will remember that I proposed a
> Comparable interface way back in the pre-5.4 days, but withdrew it
> when it became obvious that there was no consensus for it as a feature
> and that a vote was likely to fail.
>
> RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparable
> PR: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1097
>
> Why reanimate it now, I hear you ask? I think that comparisons have
> only become more prominent in the language: we now have a spaceship
> operator for explicit comparisons, yet the behaviour of object
> comparisons can be obscure, to say the least, and the user has no
> control over how their objects are compared.
>
> At this stage, I intend to put this up for a vote on March 5 (vote
> ending March 12), with the obvious endgame being that this would be
> included in 7.0.
>
> Thanks,
>

Thanks you :)

I like it. It is simple and straightforward.

I agree with other that it is easily done using a simple function
(Adam's) but I do not like it much, less clear.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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