Re: idea: implement a Comparable interface
Classes without the ability to overload the comparison operator could be
considered kinda useless as well.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Ribeiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Its kinda useless feature for PHP.
>
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> 2013/5/7 Nikita Popov <[email protected]>
>
> > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Anderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > It'd be nice if, when doing $objA > $objB, that that'd invoke
> > > $objA->__compareTo($objB) or something, much like Java's Comparable
> > > interface.
> > >
> >
> > Do you have examples of what this would be useful for? The two things
> that
> > come to mind are DateTime (which can do this anyway as it's an internal
> > class) and classes for bignums or something like that (which are probably
> > also better implemented internally). So I'm not sure how much use there
> is
> > for this.
> >
> > Nikita
> >
>
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