hi! On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Having pure object would be not efficient enough and brings its lot of >> caveats. Also it is important to keep in mind that this idea does not >> apply only to array but to other types as well. > > Same for other types. Just adding -> doesn't make the code > object-oriented.
Not the point. > And just bolting -> on top of regular function calls > because it looks prettier seems meaningless to me. OK, we could make > $foo->bar() mean bar($foo) - python already has pretty much the same > idea, after all - but what's the point in it? I don't see any that would > be worth the effort. See the other answers, clear APIs, no more argument mess, cleanness. Those are pretty good selling points and without any kind of BC. 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
