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Subject: Opinion on function/method name overloading
From: codekestrel@googlemail.com (Dominic Grostate)
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Hi,
As I understand it, using Java-like function overloading in PHP is
undesirable due to hindrance in readability.
However I'd like to get an opinion on whether it would be received more
favourably if it could provide an actual performance enhancement over hand
managed implementation's of detecting argument differences with variadic
and func_get_args.
On to a more subjective argument, "naming things" is hard, and I think many
people would appreciate being able to reuse function/method names without
sacrificing type safety.
Any thoughts?
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