Christian Schneider wrote:
Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
Since we introduce class type hints in PHP 5.0 I think it would be a
good thing [tm] to add multi-method dispatch in PHP 5.1.
Actually I think multi-method dispatching for PHP is A Bad Thing[tm].
Multi-method dispatching is necessary for statically checked, inflexible
languages without default parameters like Java.
That's probably why Common Lisp, a language way more dynamic than PHP,
provides you with a complete implementation of multiple dispatch. How
exactly do you think are default parameters related to the issue, anyway?
PHP has other means of handling the most common problems this tries to solve and having two
methods of the same name is more confusing than helping IMHO.
I assume you are you aware of what dynamic dispatch is trying to solve
-- could you give an example of the 'other means' you are referring to?
Cheers,
Michael
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