hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> Let's ignore empty arguments like "make[s] PHP feel modern". That aside, the > main argument advanced in this message makes no sense. This idea has been proposed many times in the past and it is actually a very good proposal, for array, string or other types. The only reason why it is not yet implemented is the technical complexity to do it. We need pseudo objects and the likes, and it is really not something easy to do, in an efficient enough way. > Adding method call > syntax to arrays hardly makes PHP more object oriented. Syntax is > unimportant. There's no substantial difference between array_slice($arr, > ...) and $arr->slice(...). There is a huge difference. One of the main difference would be to finally have an uniform API and not this painful inconsistent APIs we have to maintain. > There is, in my opinion, *one* merit here -- redesigning -- and perhaps > reimplementing -- the arrays functions API. This will require a lot of work, > thought, and time tough. Yes, but long due, same for strings. 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
