Re: Re: PHP Unicode support design document

Sounds absolutely great :) Ron "Marcus Boerger" <helly@php.net> wrote in message news:1299141168.20050810212621@marcus-boerger.de... > Hello Ron, > > i had a chat with Andi about __toString() and i hope that he finally > undestood why a lot of ppl wanted it right from the beginning. To me the > current situation is simply the worst case because noone understnds when it > works and when not (. vs ,). Since we are doing a drastic change in string > behavior anyway and this time have enough time until next release i already > agreed on taking care about this one as early as possible. This way we will > have enough time to find any places where __toString() is not possible. > Also Andi and i discussed again the major problem and i could ensure Andi > that there is a simple solution which he agreed on. That is we require > __toString() to return a string and do a non interruptable halt otherwise. > Maybe in a later version this can be replaced by an exception we'll see > if someone finds the time to analyse that in detail. > > best regards > marcus > > Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 4:50:17 PM, you wrote: > > > Exactly. That's how I understood it too: "Ah, the __toString behavior". I'm > > very glad this is not the case. > > > Ron > > > > "George Schlossnagle" <george@omniti.com> schreef in bericht > > news:1B80531E-3842-4DF6-B9D5-F63A8AD03C2D@omniti.com... > >> > >> On Aug 10, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> > >> > Yeah, print/echo was just a way of describing the underlying output > >> > stuff. It wasn't meant to be taken literally. > >> > >> Given the __toString fiasco, it's understandable that this would be > >> confusing though. > >> > >> George > > > > > Best regards, > Marcus