NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

John Zabroski wrote:
> --- Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Overloading is a requirement for strongly typed
>> languages, since PHP is 
>> not strongly typed it can get by without it.  I also
>> find PHP's loose 
>> typing far more appropriate to its role as a string
>> generator (sql, 
>> HTML), and appreciate its default values as part of
>> its entire 
>> philosophy of flexibility.
> 
> To be quite honest, overloading is rarely ever
> necessary even in a language with static types.
> 
Overloading in C++ can be useful to 'line up' your
classes so that you can use them in templates

But since we're discussing PHP, I would say
that you couldn't be any more right --
especially about the 'smelly code'

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