Re: Missing __toString() part

From: Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:47:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Missing __toString() part
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Hello Pierre, ever thought that we use tests to check special behavior and that those snippets have little to do with real applications? Obviously not. The idea behind is that for instance you might use an array as a translation and use an object to *calculate* the index. Saturday, June 3, 2006, 2:40:29 PM, you wrote: > Hi, > On 6/3/06, Marcus Boerger <mail@marcus-boerger.de> wrote: >> Hello guys, >> >> the attached patch closes one more __toString() part. It allows >> to use objects that define __toString as indexes to arrays. What do >> you guys think about this, should we add it or stay with the old >> behavior that didn't allow objects as indexes at all. > $arr[new Test] = 'abc'; > makes very little sense to me, as well as > $a = new Test; $arr[$a] = 'abc'; > Do we really want to support that? > --Pierre Best regards, Marcus

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