creating objects on the fly

I was coding along and thought, "You know it would be cool if I could create an object like I can an array." So, I figured it would be possible to create a PHP function called object() that acted just like array. I know I can use basically (object)array() and do it, But why not put it in PHP. I figured it could just call array() and then set the var to an object before it returned it. So, I started looking for the array() function in the PHP 3.0.11 source I have and could not find it. A. Are there any reasons this could or should not be done. B. Where is the array function? Brian. PS. I would also like to do a create_object and create_array function that would take only indices as parameters instead of the values and/or indices like array does? Thoughts?