Posted by Fraser Tweedale on 07/07/06 06:22

Wow! Nice work man!

I'm a big fan of OO myself, but as already mentioned there are a lot of
people out there wanting more from PHP in the procedural programming
department.

Good on you for taking the initiative to do this.

t

Chung Leong wrote:
> For the past few months I've been working on a fork of PHP from the
> version 4 source code. I call the new dialect "Polar." It's different
> from PHP 5 in that it's a procedural-centric language. One of the key
> additions is function overloading, which lets you do polymorphism
> procedurally:
>
> function db_query($sql, $db:MySQLDB) {
> /* MySQL-specific code here */
> }
>
> function db_query($sql, $db:PostgresDB) {
> /* Postgres-specific code here */
> }
>
> Aside from that there are many other enhancements like a float-based
> datetime type and a Unicode string type. It's pretty neat. You can find
> more information at http://www.polarwiki.net/. The site is hosted on
> the Polar itself, though it's running mostly PHP apps. I have built a
> standalone Windows program that demonstrate the new features. You can
> download it at the the web site.
>
> Right now I'm just an army of one. I'm definitely looking for more
> help. Drop a note in the message forum if you interested. Any comments
> are welcomed too.
>

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