Yeah, and don't forget goto, <?php=, removing magic_quotes_* and register_globals, making the language completely case-sensitive, etc, etc.

    Just guess if any of that list will happen..ever? :)

    --Jani


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, David Zülke wrote:

No offense, but before even thinking about operator overloading support,
really useful and crucial stuff like namespaces or Unicode support should be
tackled first.

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Terje Slettebø [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:18 PM
To: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.1

From: "Jani Taskinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Terje Slettebø wrote:

Why would it be ok there, but not in PHP? It also exists in other
scripting
languages, such as Python and Perl.

PHP is not Perl or Python or <add-your-favorite-language-here>.

That's not an argument against operator overloading. The question is why would it not be appropriate for PHP? Dynamic typing has been mentioned, and when I said that it exists in other dynamically typed languages, as well, I get the reply that "PHP is not language xxx". What kind of reply is that?! Ilia Alshanetsky suggested in a posting that the PHP community in general might not be ready for its safe introduction (i.e. they would typically misuse it). I hope it's not the case; after all, it's not such an "advanced" feature, when several mainstream languages has it.

Regards,

Terje

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