Re: Proposal for a RFC

Le sam. 4 mai 2019 à 18:37, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi Steven, > > As it currently stands, the array cast is the only operation capable of > exposing object state without triggering any kind of access guards: it is > very much required for anything that works with reflection and typed > properties, and possibly the only operation in PHP that operates on state > without some contraption intercepting its execution. > > It is also necessary to distinguish dynamic properties from declared object > state. > > For comparison, all of the following have side-effects due to the > complexity of the language: > > * isset() > * unset() > * property read > * property write > * ReflectionProperty#getValue() > * ReflectionProperty#setValue() > > Overall, this is problematic, and introduces more magic that I'd gladly > avoid, in an endpoint used to work around all the engine magic (the only > stable one so far). > > From my end, this sounds like a bad idea, because it removes one of the > very very few referentially transparent guarantees (if not the only one, > when dealing with objects) from the language. > > Greets, > > Marco > I want to weight in with what Marco expressed. I have the very same concerns and they are major ones for many use cases. Mine is VarDumper. Please don't do this the way it is described. Nicolas