Re: Generic decorators and type hinting

> code.  Instead, just use interfaces.  The only real downside is that > all the classes you want to decorate would need to implement them and > that would cause a wee bit of ugliness in the code/class declaration. Can you explain a bit more? As I understood the OP, the challenge was to take a large, already-built code base that relies on Zend Framework (which itself has 1600 classes), and wrap arbitrary existing methods with timing logic -- without significant code changes. As I understand your solution, it would require all pre-existing classes to be modified to implement the iDecorator interface -- and even then, pre-existing methods in those pre-existing classes would not actually be affected. So those would have to be modified also. But maybe I'm totally missing something? Ben