At 20:30 09.04.2002, you wrote: >>I'm personally in favour of having MI in PHP, with the serious >>alternative being interfaces. I have failed to understand what >>interfaces would mean in a language such as PHP, though, while I can see >>the clear hands-on use for MI. Can you explain how you envision >>interfaces as useful constructs in PHP, and their advantages over MI, >>considering the fact all of the binary compatibility issues don't apply? >>Zeev > >Ohh! The first thing I would do with an interface capability is use it to >dynamicly generate WSDL :) The ability to do that would make me very >happy. I was thinking I would just write up an IDL parser to do this, but >if it's built into the language, all the better! Hmm, would an interface >system in PHP allow for defining data types/structures on parameters? >Shane
If types/structs are allowed for parameters then we would need a type-system. That we don't have yet. the only types we have are strings, arrays and numbers (and boolean). And anything can be converted implicitly. marcus -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
