It would probably be passed as first param to functions, or passed as $this, like other methods. On Jul 18, 2012 4:27 PM, "Amaury Bouchard" <ama...@amaury.net> wrote:
> Seems a lot like another syntactic sugar. > > Like in Lua, where you can write > obj:method(12) > instead of > obj.method(obj, 12) > > But OOP-like syntax on non-object data is still weird. The question about > data manipulation behavior (is it a pointer like other objects or is it a > scalar like existing array?) is a tough one. > > > 2012/7/18 Andrew Faulds <ajf...@googlemail.com> > >> OK, ok. Let me clear some things up here. >> >> We don't want it to make things more object-oriented or whatever. The real >> motivation is to give us a chance to make a much cleaner, much nicer array >> API without breaking BC. We can keep the legacy array_* and unprefixed >> functions, but we can also create "pseudo-object methods" (not objects, >> but >> methods and possibly properties hooked into the method call processing, >> checking for non-object types - it's very easy to check (I've done it) for >> non-objects, and implementing this seems simple enough but I don't know >> the >> Zend engine well enough). This way we can have array->key, >> array->sort(TYPE), etc. for new code to use, instead of the legacy array >> and string method mess (the latter needs a cleanup more in particular). >> >> OK? >> On Jul 18, 2012 10:14 AM, "Pierre Joye" <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > hi, >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com >> > >> > wrote: >> > >> > > And no, it does not "allow us to clean our APIs" - I again point out >> > > using -> has nothing to do with cleaning APIs. Repeating "clean APIs" >> > > as if it is some magic spell will not make false statement true, and >> the >> > > statement that using -> somehow cleans up APIs is false. Cleaning APIs >> > > and pseudo-objects are two completely different things, and nobody yet >> > > shown any relationship between the two. >> > >> > You do not see it, your call. But it indeed does and anyone I was >> > talking to about this topic agrees with this view but two persons (you >> > incl.). >> > >> > Anyway, it is somehow pointless to argue to death about that as it is >> > technically not possible yet. I'm 200% sure it will happen. >> > >> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >
