Re: Making stdClass iterable
| From: | Marco Pivetta | Date: | Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:17:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Making stdClass iterable | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 | Groups: | php.internals |
| Request: | Send a blank email to internals+get-103736@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:09 PM Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > We should never have added stdClass.
>
> Why not deprecate it then, instead of extending it and giving it more
> legitimacy?
> This would remove some of the "2 ways of doing the same thing", such as
> json_decode().
>
> Ben
>
This.
stdClass can't die due to a lot of backwards compatibility in existing
code (wordpress loves it), but in any code I've written over the past 5
years, the first thing I'd do with it is get rid of it as fast as possible.
Making it more powerful will just make the problem bigger.
Marco Pivetta
http://twitter.com/Ocramius
http://ocramius.github.com/