Think of all the little php snippets, custom blocks, *.tpl.php, etc. files that use object notation instead of arrays. All of them will be useless. Converting them all over will cause a lot of people a lot of pain and frustration. Switching would not be worth it and a big mistake, IMHO. On 7/2/06, Gordon Heydon <gordon@heydon.com.au> wrote:
Hi,
I'm down on consistencies sake. I'm also into the flexability of arrays. Our occasional use of objects don't allow us to do anything useful with them. Where we do have objects, they don't have any methods. So whats the point of keeping them around?
There are a couple of reasons why we do not change.
1. Objects are easier to work with than arrays, but then again, it is 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other.
2. What is changing going to get us? We would spend the next 6 months moving all the code so that we use arrays over objects, and we will be no further ahead. There is no gain or loss.
3. I remember reading somewhere long ago. Dries likes them over arrays.
This is like saying nodes are crap, and we should change them to the next greatest XYZ.
Gordon.
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