On 20.09.2024 at 15:00, Gina P. Banyard wrote: > This leads to a rather insane situation where the engine does not assume + is > always commutative but does so for *, something which makes no sense as > multiplication or product operations are (in the grand scheme of mathematics) > rarely commutative.
Gosh, I had completely forgotten about ZEND_TRY_BINARY_OBJECT_OPERATION. So I withdraw my statement about the only reasonable way to implement operator overloading in PHP[1], and state that there is no reasonable way to implement operator overloading in PHP at all (excluding comparison and equality operations), since apparently, we cannot even get the *only two* internal bundled classes to properly handle this. Cf. <https://3v4l.org/gksqI/rfc#vgit.master> and <https://3v4l.org/o5Uhh/rfc#vgit.master>. [1] <https://externals.io/message/125550#125621> Christoph
