Le 18/10/2023 à 14:50, someniatko a écrit :
Hi internals,
This approach allows combining
- no BC break - `~=` is a new syntax which is unavailable in older PHP
versions
- explicitly showing an intent that objects are compared using a custom
comparison, rather than standard PHP one
- allow to skip writing boilerplate equals() methods which just forward
equals() to the nested objects
- standardize such comparisons on the language level
Of course how exactly this operator looks may be changed, `~=` is just an
example.
WDYT?
I'm not fond of operator overloading, I actually quite hate it, I like
the expressiveness of an equals() method.
I would very much prefer to have a set of standard interfaces such as
Comparable { compareTo($other): int } or Equatable { equals($other):
bool; } which the standard API and userland libraries could make use of.
In all cases, I don't like the ~= choice because in my mind it literally
translates to "is approximately/barely/maybe comparable to".
By the way, please do not use abbreviations such as WDYT, I'm not a
native english speaker and I don't know all abbreviations, I had to
duckduckgo' it.
Regards,
--
Pierre
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