2011/11/13 Antoine Delignat-Lavaud <antoine.delignat-lav...@ens-cachan.fr>: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 03:10 +0100, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
please use two replies next time :) > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 14:23 +0100, Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> There is an idea to have pseudo object for common types, where these >> functions would be callable without actually having an instance. No >> implementation yet so far. > > So this means being able to use $string->strlen() (or even $string->len()) > instead of strlen($string) or $array->in_array($x) ($array->in($x)) instead > of in_array($x,$array), right? Yes, that's the idea, but then with obvious names: $string->length(); or $string->length; $array->in($x); instead of reusing the horrible string functions we have right now (needle haystack orders and other (impossible to remember) funny things ;). > That seems like a step in the right direction, with no change to the syntax > required. I'll try to see if I can make an implementation of this but I fear > it might be a bit more complex than just new language constructors. It is definitively more tricky yes. Cheers. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
