On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote: > Overloading is evil, because functions like substr() are often > used to splice a certain length of octets byte-wise while mb_substr() > treats the sequence of octets on a character-basis. And overloading > cannot be turned on in scripts, this prevents us from writing portable > scripts. There're virtually no cleaner way to do the tasks elegantly.
I also think overloading is evil, w've seen before what the problems can be because of difference between an overloaded and a non-overloaded version. It is however perfectly possible to tune this behavior in the php.ini file; not sure if we want that though. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
