I believe the problem is that 10 years ago we introduced what can be
described as 'loose OO programming', and we're replacing it (instead
of augmenting it) with strict OO programming.
Zeev
At 02:11 02/08/2006, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Pierre wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:52:27 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schneider) wrote:
Why can't we agree that people use classes in different ways (call
it non-OO ways if you want) and restrain from forcing ones views
onto everybody? PHP works well because it of the freedom it gives,
not because of the limitations.
<rant>
Because there is people who does not want to know the PHP way. They
want their {put your fashion OO language here} way in PHP. Strictness
was never a goal in php.
But it looks like the opinion of the current php users do not matter,
only the ones coming from {put your fashion OO language here}. It seems
that they have hard time to justify the usage of {put your fashion OO
language here}, time to bork PHP.
</rant>
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.
-Rasmus
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