On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Harald Radi wrote: > because people prefer either the one or the other way to manipulate things. > people not familiar with oo will most likely not not stick with the oo api nor > will they be happy if they're forced to use it. on the other hand people > writing their scripts entirely oo will propably hate it to mix function calls > with method invokations all the time. > furthermore functions are supposed to issue warnings and methods are supposed > to throw exceptions, two entirely different concepts of error handling where > neitherone is preferable. > > so the question is to give rope or not.
Ugh, so following your line of reasoning we should rewrite all extensions to provide both function and OO apis? A better approach would be to have extensions provide only function API and then write a PEAR class to expose them as objects. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ * My wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/2Q2DIPY7BZLSH/ * -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
