Afternoon all,
Recently I've been running in to a lot of frustrations with PHP, don't
get me wrong I love the language, but I just can't do what I *need* to
in a few situations, specifically when dealing with Classes and Objects.
I strongly feel that these need added in to PHP 6, for multiple reasons
which I'd be happy to elaborate on.
a: Optional Static Typing
I'm finding an ever increasingly need to be able to staticly type
properties, parameters, return types etc (in classes) I know there is
type hinting but it's just not enough to do what one needs. Additionally
support for staticly typing primatives.
b: Object superclass
A base class type which all objects automagically extend, with (if
nothing else) a unique id / hashcode for each object. Failing this some
form of function to get a unique reference string for any variable.
c: Method overloading
TBH it's something I could live without, whereas a/b aren't, but it
would be an ideal addition to php; Many times I've had to work around
the lack of this functionality with (what could be) unneeded code.
I can't stress enough what a vast difference the implementation of these
three features would make to php, even above many of those currently
rfc'd (imo), infact I'd put them on par with the need for namespaces,
and additionally they'd compliment namespaces perfectly.
Is there any way to get the ball moving with any of the above? (if I was
a c dev I'd do it myself.. infact even considered learning c just for
this task)
Regards, Nathan
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