At 07:03 PM 9/27/00 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>So, I'd be happy to make everything an object under three conditions:
>
>1) it doesn't interfere with *optimized* language constructs for
>the most common tasks
If it goes in it won't.
>2) it isn't being put in just to satisfy some theory that making
>everything an object will make everything easier
I can't picture Larry doing it if this is the only good reason.
>3) it doesn't slow things down for those of us who want to use the
>optimized interfaces and not worry about objects until we get to
>500-line programs
It's not gonna.
Worst case the optimizer will turn this:
$len = $foo->length;
into this:
$len = length($foo);
Sort of the way we handle double-quoted string interpolation now.
Dan
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