Re: [PATCH] Make var_export() output "(object)array(..." insteadof"stdClass::__set_state(..." for stdClass

From:	Andrea Faulds	Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:46:26 +0000
Subject:	Re: [PATCH] Make var_export() output "(object)array(..." insteadof"stdClass::__set_state(..." for stdClass
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

On 14.03.2017 at 19:57, Andrea Faulds wrote:
Since stdClass has no __set_state method, var_export() produces unusable output if given an object of that class. I wrote a patch that would make var_export() produce a cast to object instead, which could be evaluated to get back a stdClass: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2420 Any thoughts/comments? If you're wondering about whether a __set_state method should be added to stdClass, I posted some thoughts in the pull request discussion already.
FTR: If nobody objects, I'll merge this PR into master on 2018-07-12, so that it goes into PHP 7.3. See <https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2420#issuecomment-402561913>.

And so it was done: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/e4e9cd835550990a6b8df7c61d59b6cc0da9b5b2 Thanks, Cristoph! :) -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/