Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c

I favour a), if you mean that (string)$com_object will work. I'm not so bothered with userspace objects. b) is just wrong for overloaded objects; if we do some magic and either hide an existing __toString() method, or call one with the wrong parameters (it might implement one differently to the way that we expect), then we end up in trouble. --Wez. > I think there are two options: > a) Revert the cast operator patch and don't support automatic string > conversion by PHP objects (i.e. allowing overloading extensions to support > it). But you still shouldn't expect automagical conversions when passing > COM objects to functions which accept strings as a parameter. > b) Add a __toString() C API function and make $obj->__toString() call that. > It would mean that your COM example would look like > serialize($com_object->__toString()). > > Personally, I prefer (b) but I think I can live with both. > Note: In both cases you won't have automatic conversions. > > Andi > > >