Re: Why use PHP? What are the disadvantages?

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For a subprocedure?   A reusable service that can be called from 
anywhere?  I'd love to have it be able to use that parameter as any 
different data type!

As a trivial example, consider a procedure that inputs a date in MMDDYY 
format and outputs it in YYYYMMDD format.  wouldn't it be nice if the 
input value could be a date field, character string, unicode string, 
zoned decimal, packed decimal or integer field?  So I don't have to code 
a separate procedure for every single input type?

You don't see the value in this, Aaron?


On 4/20/2010 4:15 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> But here's my question.  How often do you actually prefer a variable to hold
> a character in one line of code and then have that same variable hold an
> integer in the next?  In all my uses of PHP that has only led to hard to
> read code and lots of bugs (as it relates to business logic code).