Re: Re: Design points (was: parent_ctor())

KK>> Actually, I consider the ability to keep structures with references KK>> across serialization essential (*1), and the language below should make KK>> this easy, or at least possible. But that doesn't mean PHP references don't work right. They aren't just a tool for what you want to do (yet?) KK>> (*1) As I explained, referenced are to data structures what foreign KK>> keys are to sql tables. They are needed to normalize a design. BTW, not that SQL tables _do not_ have any "references". In most implementations, AFAIK, foreign keys work in entirely different way. In SQL foreign key is a property of the table, not the row, AFAIK. So to make 1-1 correspondence between SQL foreign keys and PHP references is not right. -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665