Re: Missing __toString() part

Hello Pierre, Sunday, June 4, 2006, 1:52:41 PM, you wrote: > Hello, >> Hello Rasmus, Andi, >> marcus@zaphod /usr/src/PHP_5_2 $ php -r 'var_dump(spl_object_hash(new >> stdClass));' string(32) "0bab1548e3b42acbcf1170617b5432ae" >> >> For PHP 5.2 we could think about adding a hash handler to the object >> handler table and provide the above as default implementation. That >> hash handler would then be called when an object is being used as an >> offset. Maybe later in PHP 6 we can also add an interface that allows >> to overload that hash implementation. (If someone really wants that). >> Yet anything the user can overload be it an interface or magic >> function (e.g. __hashOf) seems to be too much for now. > Do you mean to allow object as indices with this default > implementation? But this implementataion cannot be overloaded? I fail > to see the needs of such things in 5.x (or 6.x even with overload). > Adding another magic method __toHash is also not what I would like. > Adding a function hash_from_object() or spl_hash_from object() to ease > the generations of hashes is indeed a good idea. There is no impact in > the objects managements and people are free to use it or not (no magic > default behaviors). Hence i wrote "For PHP 5.2 we **could** think"...