Hi Sara and Patricio,

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Sara Golemon <poll...@php.net> wrote:

> Patricio Tarantino has asked me to help him propose Operator
> Overloading in PHP 7.1 (based in part on my operator extension in
> PECL).  I think we can expose this to usespace as magic methods with
> very little overhead (the runtime check and dispatch is already there,
> after all).


+1 to moving this out of PECL and into the engine.


> I do think that the "Future Expansion" section bears following through
>
with as well, but the basic set of methods already hooked for GMP
> would be a nice start.
>

Whoa, that's a big list of magic methods. I wonder if a generic dispatch
magic method would be more developer friendly. Something like:

public function __overload(string $operator, object $rhs = null); // $rhs
=== null iff op is unary

Thanks!
bishop

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