Re: Autoboxing in PHP

Hi Moriyoshi, I took just a quick look through the patch, but for me it looks like a bad idea. Introducing new magic function may bring a lot of troubles and open a new door for exploit writer (we already have problems with __toString() method). Also I afraid, this magic method will make php slower even if scripts don't use this future (at least the patch disables code specialization for ZEND_INIT_METHOD_CALL) and make some future type propagation optimizations non-applicable. At last the patch introduces 18 new grammar conflicts and I think it's not acceptable. Thanks. Dmitry. Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:

Hey, Just to let you know about a new RFC for adding autoboxing feature in PHP. Look at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoboxing . Regards, Moriyoshi