All, I've just written an RFC (with a patch against trunk) to implement a Comparable interface similar to that in Java — in effect, allowing object instances to be compared with semantics defined in userspace. This is admittedly at the lower end of RFC-worthy proposals, but it's a good system, and I'd like to see it used a little more. Plus, it's good practice for the more interesting stuff to come. :)
The RFC is at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/comparable, and the patch at http://www.adamharvey.name/patches/comparable.diff.txt. Any and all feedback welcome, particularly since I'm still learning my way around the innards of the Zend Engine, and it's entirely possible (indeed, likely) that I've overlooked something obvious. If there's no great resistance to the concept or implementation, I'm happy enough to flip this into the voting stage sooner rather than later so we can get it out of the way. Thanks, Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
