On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:26 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On 3/12/08, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's a perfectly viable business reason. > > No it's not. I guess you need a "business" scenario to wrap your head > around the idiocy. > > Here you go: > > Imagine at Blizzard one morning, "Hey guys, we're not going to be able > to use function pointers on the new Diablo III like we had planned to > do, the new hires down the hall don't understand them very well so > just don't use them, OK?" This is not a valid comparison. The above is the replacement of one convention with another convention. It is not a case of circumventing a convention to achieve a specific, and probably desired outcome. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
