On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Andrew Faulds <ajf...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Through its history, PHP has slowly become more object-oriented. PHP
> today has classes, interfaces, objects, namespaces, and so on.
> However, much of the language's core functionality is entirely
> procedural, composed of functions and constants, much of which are
> badly organised and inconsistently named.
>
> I think PHP could benefit from making arrays, strings, integers,
> floats, and possibly booleans, into "pseudo-objects". By this I mean
> that they are not really objects (they are still primitive types and
> keep their passing semantics), but they have methods. For instance,
> instead of array_keys($array), one could do $array->keys();
>
> Adding this would make PHP feel more modern and allow people to
> embrace more object-oriented programming styles. As a bonus, it would
> also give a chance to make the string/array/etc functions better and
> more consistently named and possibly implemented.
>
> I am working on an implementation of this for arrays, but I haven't
> got very far. However, for someone that knows the Zend engine
> internals, it does not appear to me that adding such things would be
> very difficult.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
we have that brought up once or twice in the past, last time it was Rasmus
who mentioned that it could be nice:
http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=130159506720600&w=2


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