Zitat von Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
I guess it depends on your pov. If you want to write portable scripts, relying on overloading or even special php.ini tuning is a nightmare. Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
