Overloading

I'm developing a PHP framework and had the same issue sometimes... I think
it was already discussed in the list, did you searched the archives?

Saulo

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Tinsley, Mark MTinsley@dallasairmotive.com
wrote:

What about the addition of overloading for PHP 6?

I am not totally up to date on the developments of the parameter type
hints. I briefly read the meeting minutes for PHP 6.

What about with the type hints we have now?

class moo
{

public static function foo(FooClass $FooVar)
{
// do something
}

public static function foo(BooClass $BooVar)
{
// do something
}
}

I have a project where we had to do a sort of pseudo overloading

Class moo
{
/**
* Accept the superclass or any of its sub classes
*/
public static function foo(FooSuperClass $Foo)
{
switch (true)
{
case $Foo instanceof FooClass:
$method = 'fooFoo';
break;

   case $Foo instanceof BooClass:
       $method = 'fooBoo';
       break;

   default:
       throw new Exception('Unrecognized type: ' .

get_class($Foo));
break;
}

   call_user_func(array(self, $method), $Foo);

}

private static function fooFoo(FooClass $FooVar)
{
// do something
}

private static function fooBoo(BooClass $BooVar)
{
// do something
}
}

Mark