Hello Andi, Friday, August 26, 2005, 3:39:08 AM, you wrote:
> At 06:00 AM 8/25/2005, Edin Kadribasic wrote: >>Derick Rethans wrote: >> > And how can you possibly argue that this more complex than all the other >> > OO crap that people are suggesting here.... >> >>I belive that we should do our best to filter out this storm of OO >>feature requests. People want to make PHP look like some other OO >>languages for no good reason other that they're familiar with it or that >>their CS teacher thought they were cool. > I completely agree. > This very much bloats the language syntax and would be mainly there > for the sake of OO fanatics. Guys, seriously, this kind of stuff and > a lot of the other OO proposals I've heard here lately are going to > lead to PHP going down the drain. Derick, the fact that you say it's > not worse than "other OO crap that people are suggesting here...." > just means that it's also good to leave the other crap out of PHP. > Sometimes I really wished people who really need this kind of crap go > and download Python & Smalltalk, instead of killing PHP's benefits. > There is no language that does everything, and I'd like to keep PHP > good at what it does best. People who aren't content with PHP not > being a master piece in object oriented really should look elsewhere. > I'll be happy to hear back from them regarding development time, > ease-of-use and training period for developers. > I don't see why the __get/__set/__isset/__unset methods themselves > can't check if the property exists and throw an exception if it > doesn't. I always do that in all my examples... Interesting, How do you do that? There is no __isset or __unset. > As far as > documentation is concerned, you'll usually have a nice array in the > beginning of the class declaration which is pretty verbose, if that's > not good enough people can use phpDoc (or we can enhance phpDoc). If > you strongly feel that something like _have_prop() is needed despite > exceptions doing the job, it's something that could be considered but > I'm not convinced it's needed. > Andi Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
