Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/25/06 13:23

Tony Marston wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:4K2dnSM18oD9YQDZnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>>David Haynes wrote:
>>
>>>Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>
> < snip >
>
>>I really don't know how hard it would be to add - but I would like to see
>>it added. One thing I don't like all that much is the untyped variables.
>>It makes things "easy" - but leads to some sloppy programming.
>>
>>It also means you can't overload functions - at least not with the same
>>number of parms. Typing the constructor arguments is a good start. But
>>expanding that to other functions without breaking existing code might be
>>more difficult.
>
>
> You don't need function overloading in PHP. Why? First you need to look at
> why other languages need it:
> (a) To accept arguments of different types.
> (b) To make some arguments optional.
>
> With PHP you can accept an argument of any type and then cast it to the one
> you want, so item (a) is irrelevant.
>
> With PHP you can define a default value for an argument if it is not
> supplied, so item (b) is irrelevant.
>

Sure. I would love to be able to have a function which does different things
based on the type of parameter passed. It would save a lot of work trying to
sort out parameters and potentially having to change existing code when adding
new parameter types.

But we already know you don't understand or appreciate real OO programming,
Tony. So quite frankly, I don't give a damn what you think.


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