Re: [VOTE] Object-based token_get_all() alternative

From: Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:07:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Object-based token_get_all() alternative
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Le mercredi 11 mars 2020, 10:59:19 CET Larry Garfield a écrit : > I forget who it was but someone on the list a while back offered a heuristic of > "__toString should be used iff there is one and only one logical string representation of a > value, because the value is conceptually just a string with extra metadata on it". > > That sounds like a really solid heuristic to me. In this case, I think yes, ->text is the > only reasonable thing to produce for __toString(). Yes that was my reasoning, a token is essentially a substring, so I was expecting __toString to reflect this and allow me to use it as a string. -- Côme Chilliet FusionDirectory - https://www.fusiondirectory.org

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