Re: class usage

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On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:07 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, September 29, 2006 4:35 am, benifactor wrote:
> > ..and this seems to work fine, i could easily add  the mail function
> > and insert real variables into send() but what i don't understand is i
> > could also easily do this without a class... so i guess the real
> > question is what are some real life examples of class usage and why is
> > it used as  opposed to regular non oop? thank you for any input into
> > the subject that you may have.
> 
> For something that small, using a class is ridiculous, bloated,
> over-engineered pointless exercise.
> 
> Rather than type "ridiculous, bloated, over-engineered pointless
> exercise" in this email again, I'll simply dub that "Wrong Answer" and
> type that a lot.
> 
> In fact, for almost *ANY* small/simple problem OOP is the "Wrong Answer".
> 
> OOP shines, however, in some large-scale usage:
> 
> #1. One architect, many developers
> If you have ONE project architect cleanly map out a Plan in the form
> of a large class structure, with a clear and clean internal API, and a
> bunch of junior programmers to fill in the details, the Architect can
> use OOP with stub functions, just like you wrote above, to build the
> framework, and the junior programmers can fill in all the stubs.
> 
> #2 Real-world parallels
> Sometimes when modeling real-world parallels (or even Virtual World
> parallels like game prototyping, windowing systems, etc) having OOP
> leads to a very natural readable maintainable code-base, as the
> operations and variables and the interaction between them mirrors to a
> large extent the operation and interaction between their real-world
> counterparts.

#3 In PHP
PHP has no namespaces, use classes to improve your chances of avoiding
namespace collisions.

And I realize Richard will call this the wrong answer, but when you
don't have the tools you need, you make use of the ones you do have.

Cheers,
Rob.
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