Re: Tie'ing variables
| From: | Moriyoshi Koizumi | Date: | Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:05:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Tie'ing variables | ||
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George Schlossnagle <george@omniti.com> wrote:
> Having this sort of functionaility in general would be great. I know
> you can affect this with objects via overload, but it is useful for
> scalars and arrays and streams as well. It is pretty 'magical' though.
Then how about allowing access to object properties via square brackets
like ECMA-Script? Though this will definitely add much more complexity to
the Engine...
Moriyoshi
> George
>
> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if it might be possible to "tie" these arrays to a
> > function (if you don't understand that, look at Perl for a definition).
> > One could populate them as an overloaded object, and then array
> > accesses
> > would work - I guess. But I would prefer a cleaner mechanism.