Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-18 Thread Lukas Smith
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Ron Korving wrote: is multiple inheritence something we might see appearing in 5.2 ? The concept of Multiple Inheritance should be left to programming languages that can properly deal with it (by letting the programmer influence how inheritance collision can be resolve

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Ron Korving wrote: > is multiple inheritence something we might see appearing in 5.2 ? The concept of Multiple Inheritance should be left to programming languages that can properly deal with it (by letting the programmer influence how inheritance collision can be resolved, for instance). Mult

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Ryan King
On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:55 PM, Jason Garber wrote: Hello, Speaking of these matters, how about implementing functions within interfaces? That is by definition impossible. Instead of being an interface, it would be an implementation. -ryan -- Best regards, Jasonmail

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread l0t3k
"Ron Korving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So why is this such a big "no"? Implementation problem or is it against a > certain PHP philosophy? Just do a google search on the cons of MI (narrow it to C++ if you please). it's much more a philosophical issue, altho

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Jason Garber
Hello, Speaking of these matters, how about implementing functions within interfaces? -- Best regards, Jasonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, February 17, 2005, 5:46:08 PM, you wrote: RK> Okay, I'll accept the "no" of course, but I am curious.. Is it an RK> im

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Ron Korving
Okay, I'll accept the "no" of course, but I am curious.. Is it an implementation problem with the current engine? Saying that using interfaces discards the MI issue is nonsense imho, because I can't implement any functions in an interface. So why is this such a big "no"? Implementation problem or

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Ron, Thursday, February 17, 2005, 11:10:55 PM, you wrote: > A little offtopic, but I'm still curious.. is multiple inheritence something > we might see appearing in 5.2 ? Definitively not. You may raise this question prior to PHP 6, However still getting the answer 'no'. The concept simply

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Andi Gutmans
Nope. Interfaces is supported as an alternative approach to MI. Andi At 11:10 PM 2/17/2005 +0100, Ron Korving wrote: A little offtopic, but I'm still curious.. is multiple inheritence something we might see appearing in 5.2 ? Ron "Marcus Boerger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Before March 1st aka PHP 5.1 beta

2005-02-17 Thread Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ron Korving wrote: > A little offtopic, but I'm still curious.. is multiple inheritence something > we might see appearing in 5.2 ? No. -adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday r