Re: Design points (was: parent_ctor())

Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > KK>> disadvantages: hard to do because of the strange way PHP handles > KK>> references. > > You put it as if "references" is some well-defined entity and PHP > mis-handles it. It's not right - PHP handles references perfectly right, > they are just not what you think they are. Actually, I consider the ability to keep structures with references across serialization essential (*1), and the language below should make this easy, or at least possible. Kristian (*1) As I explained, referenced are to data structures what foreign keys are to sql tables. They are needed to normalize a design. That's why they are essential. -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/