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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:22:05 +0000
To: "S.A.N" <ua.san.alex@gmail.com>,Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Consistent function names
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 1 March 2015 15:18:09 GMT, "S.A.N" <ua.san.alex@gmail.com> wrote:
>Maybe better implement for method calls on primitive types in PHP 7?
>https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects

We'd have a whole bunch of tough decisions to make - does HTML escaping really belong as a method of the string type? What are printf and scanf methods of? Etc

Without the ability for a user to patch the existing type (a major departure from current classes), you basically still have a bunch of function aliases. What motivation would there be to change dozens of instances of strpos($a, $b) to $a->indexOf($b)?

In this respect, some version of UString makes more sense, because (if well-defined) it actually gives users some advantage over the current functions.

Regards,
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Rowan Collins
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