On 07/19/2012 12:25 AM, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi Rasmus,
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote:
>
>> This makes no sense to me either. How does it let us clean the APIs? Can
>> you give an example? I have one:
>>
>> $a = -5;
>> $b = "-5";
>>
>> echo $a->abs(); // Outputs 5
>> echo $b->abs(); // should still output 5
>>
>> What has been cleaned here over:
>>
>> echo abs($a);
>> echo abs($b);
>
> Heh, here is another example where it makes even less sense: time();
>
> sigh.
>
> More seriously... we are not talking about these APIs and I am sure
> you know which one I refer to, like the string API and the like.
Ok, so for the string API:
$a = 1;
$a->strstr('1');
should still work. All the string API methods need to be available on
every pseudo-object regardless of the type. So I don't see any "cleanup"
here either.
-Rasmus
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