[PLUG] Is PHP a good intro programming language?

[Wil Cooley]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:14, Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> OK.  Not to get too much into language wars ;-) but Ruby has _real_
> operator overloading:
> 
> class Foo
> 
>   def +(other)
>     #do whatever you need to do to add foo's together
>   end
> 
>   def [](index)
>     #do whatever you need to do to index into your foo
>   end
> 
>   def []=(index,value)
>     #assign some foo index a value
>   end
> 
> end
> 
> ....not a complete example, of course...
> I find Python's __operatorname__ way of doing operator overloading
> annoying.

Aside from using a different naming convention, what does this do that
Python can't?
 
> Yes, lots of Pythonisas say this.  For me I found it caused trouble from
> the first Python program I tried to type in.  I played with Python for
> about three hours and then decided it wasn't for me mostly based on
> this indentation as syntax thing (but also, it seemed odd to have to
> pass in self everywhere to your instance methods, at least in their
> definitions, and all those __xyz__ method names)...  I think the
> Python/Ruby choice is one of taste - they
> both have a lot of similar features.  I also tend to  find that if you're
> coming from Perl you'll probably prefer Ruby.

I've come to like the whitespace syntax thing.  It really saves the
wrists and vision.  The only think I miss is being able to flash to the
opening brace with '%' in vi.

Wil
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