> Variadic functions
Doesn't PHP have that already? http://us2.php.net/func_get_args
Edit - Checking out that parent link it seems: Currently variadic functions are implemented by fetching the function arguments using func_get_args(). The following code sample shows an implementation of a variadic function used to prepare and execute a MySQL query (I'll be making use of this example throughout the RFC):
Firstly, by just looking at the function signature public function query($query) you cannot know that this is actually a variadic function. You'd think that the function can only run a normal query and doesn't support bound parameters:
public function query($query, ...$params) { /*...
$userData = $db->query('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?', $userID)->fetch();
Re:PHP 5.5.5 Released
by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:19AM
(#6565119)
There's a counterpart unpacking syntax which will likely also get merged in, meaning you can have:
function query($query, ...$params) {}
and $params = [3];
query('SELECT * FROM table WHERE a = ?;', ...$params);Importing namespaced functions is also a nice addition and has been accepted! Although its not included in 5.6 yet.
> Operator Overloading
That's scary
Re:PHP 5.5.5 Released
by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:16AM
(#6565108)
It's for internal PHP runtime use only. IIRC we're adding it so that our bignum library is nicer to use.
So far, these features will probably make it to version 5.6: