On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>>>And if at all we drop the auto-conversion then what we get is:
>>>print toupper((string)$obj);
>>>Wow, no more elegant php - no more typeless php.
>
>PHP was never "elegant" in this meaning - you never could do
>toupper($object) and expect something meaningful. I also don't see any
>elegancy in it - just more crypic way of saying the same thing. I see no
>problem at all in writing toupper($object->_toString()) - it is clear,
>self-documenting and error-resistant much more than your "elegant"
>version.
Couldn't agree more.. :)
--Jani
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