On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:24:33AM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote :
> On Thursday 03 January 2002 11:08 pm, Zak Greant wrote:
> > > > Why?
> > >
> > > Because not everyone wants to use *(#$&ing objects in a simple script!
> >
> > No one will be forced to use the wrapper! :)
>
> Whilst this is true, and I know that you are thoughtful and conciencious
> enough to make sure that any new stuff available via OO would also be
> available via a procedural interface, I fear that this might be the start of
> a trend which would spoil PHP.
>
> If you are a web applications developer, there are plenty of mainstream
> options if you like OO. There are fewer if you prefer procedural code, and
> PHP is certainly the natural home for those of us in the latter camp. The
> further PHP moves into the OO camp, the less appealing it becomes for the
> procedural people. Once we have an OO interface to such a mainstream
> extension as mysql (probably *the* most important php extension?), it sends
> an important message to users and developers alike.
Maybe you missed that ZE2 new major strength will better OOP
support. So its a good idea to start getting users used to it
because that is were ZE2 (namespaces, etc) will lead us to.
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