While you're at it, convert intrinsic types to objects too, while retaining backwards compatibility: $foo = 'bar'; echo $foo->length(); // 3 echo s

While you're at it, convert intrinsic types to objects too, while retaining backwards compatibility: $foo = 'bar'; echo $foo->length(); // 3 echo strlen($foo); // 3 This would get rid of a lot of the confusion around string function names.