I'm developing a PHP framework and had the same issue sometimes... I think
it was already discussed in the list, did you searched the archives?
Saulo
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Tinsley, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> What about the addition of overloading for PHP 6?
>
> I am not totally up to date on the developments of the parameter type
> hints. I briefly read the meeting minutes for PHP 6.
>
> What about with the type hints we have now?
>
> class moo
> {
>
> public static function foo(FooClass $FooVar)
> {
> // do something
> }
>
> public static function foo(BooClass $BooVar)
> {
> // do something
> }
> }
>
>
> I have a project where we had to do a sort of pseudo overloading
>
> Class moo
> {
> /**
> * Accept the superclass or any of its sub classes
> */
> public static function foo(FooSuperClass $Foo)
> {
> switch (true)
> {
> case $Foo instanceof FooClass:
> $method = 'fooFoo';
> break;
>
> case $Foo instanceof BooClass:
> $method = 'fooBoo';
> break;
>
> default:
> throw new Exception('Unrecognized type: ' .
> get_class($Foo));
> break;
> }
>
> call_user_func(array(self, $method), $Foo);
> }
>
> private static function fooFoo(FooClass $FooVar)
> {
> // do something
> }
>
> private static function fooBoo(BooClass $BooVar)
> {
> // do something
> }
> }
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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