Re: __string_value() crashes with return

At 12:35 PM 8/31/00 -0700, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:

Andrei Zmievski writes: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:

It does because it increases the "what the fuck factor" when it doesn't work for (string) $obj and I think there aren't really good reasons

to keep

it. And anyways, I doubt it has reached enough audience (it doesn't

seem to

be documented) in order for it to hurt backwards compatibility.

Either we go all the way and have an ability for object to provide custom handler functions for string conversion, comparison, etc. (like Python), or we remove that functionality totally. Having it halfway would be half-assed. -Andrei And a pain in the butt to document: 'It does this, but only for this circumstance...and doesn't really work like other stuff in the language, because...no, it won't be made more consistent...um...' ;)

I nuked it. Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/