On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Lukas Smith wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Relax people. There are certain paradigms and expectations people have. > > The original PHP design met the expectations and paradigms of a loosely > > typed procedural language. Now, some 12 years later we are trying to meet a > > new class of expectations. We have kids coming out of universities today > > who barely know what procedural programming is. All they know is OOP and we > > want to give them something that meets their expectations. We have to be > > careful that we don't ignore too many OOP rules or we would fail to meet > > these expectations. The PHP way is not to make everything look like the > > procedural approach. The PHP way is to cater to peoples' existing knowledge > > and build a language that does what people expect it to. That doesn't mean > > we shouldn't loosen up some OOP rules where it makes sense, but it also > > doesn't mean we should ignore them completely. > > sure .. and all the old users that have become used to how OOP in PHP works > are to be ignored?
Not really, but it's never too late to learn how something really works. If you want to cater for everybody that thinks that OO support was there in PHP 4 you're quite lost already :) regards, Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
