Re: Internal class, read_property() and type == BP_VAR_W

Sara Golemon wrote:

Would you say it's possible that one can maintain i as class property with write access through references?

Nope, because PHP variables are loose typed. Say you *did* have some way to bind my_obj->i to a userspace variable (e.g.: $i =& $this->i; ). The next instruction could say $i = 'foo';, then what is the engine supposed to do with that? If you want i to have any visibility in userspace, then it needs to be a zval, and that means it can be modified, and that means that you'll need to be prepared to re-cast it back to the right type later. Kinda sucks, but it sucks for a good reason...

Uhm... you're so right, thanks, that cleared my mind and makes me remember my first post to the list ;) Thank you, -- Michael - <mike(@)php.net> http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz