Re: object refrences (POSSIBLE MAJOR BUG)

brad lafountain wrote: > > > As far as references go... I believe when you copy an object it is a > > shallow copy, in otherwords, the object is copied, but not its members. > > This behaviour is preferrable as far as I'm concerned. If you want a > > deep copy try doing the following: > > > > $foo = new foo(); > > $fee = unserialize( serialize( $foo ) ); > > > > That should provide a nice quick, clean solution for what you want while > > not incurring the overhead most programmers would rather skip on every > > object copy. > > I shouldn't have to $fee = unserialize( serialize( $foo ) ) everytime i want > to get a copy of an object when the engine says it copys. That is FAR from > 'clean'. A possible soultion for this to get around the speed vs functionality. > The engine could keep track of a copy and when and only when a member gets > change that is when it should make the copy of the member objects. So you get > the speed but it is transparent to the user. And I shouldn't have to wait for all the housekeeping code to do it's thing to keep track of whether I'm changing a member variable or not. So I get the speed don't need to do $foo = &$fee every time I want a change the member variables of the original object. The engine says it copies... it doesn't say it DEEP copies. Please understand the difference. Cheers, Rob. -- .-----------------. | Robert Cummings | :-----------------`----------------------------. | Webdeployer - Chief PHP and Java Programmer | :----------------------------------------------: | Mail : mailto:robert.cummings@webmotion.com | | Phone : (613) 731-4046 x.109 | :----------------------------------------------: | Website : http://www.webmotion.com | | Fax : (613) 260-9545 | `----------------------------------------------'