Re: Missing __toString() part

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello Robert, > > well lazy is a good point here but __toString is all about lazyness. > Then again as said you might want to have objects naturally convert > to strings whereever possible. Generally when providing a __toString > implementation you say that you want this. And then you might as well > expect that your objects can be used as index to arrays. > > The example is as said an object that can be used to calculate the > index to an array. Assuming you deal with persons derived from > a database as classes, your person objects might be implmeneted so > that __toString simply returns the name of the persons. Now when your > application also has an array that stores more information about the > persons it would be nice if you could access that array direectly by > your peson objects. Makes sense to me, so +1. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org