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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC Operator Overloading in Userspace
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Interface is a good way to implement new functionality for classes, but
> operator overloading is language feature itself, so from my point of view,
> it will be better to put this functionality into the magic method.

No contradiction here. Language features can use interfaces, see
Throwable or ArrayAccess.

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Stas Malyshev
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