Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c
| From: | Marcus Boerger | Date: | Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:25:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c | ||
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Hello Andrei,
Thursday, December 4, 2003, 1:18:50 AM, you wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> No, when the object does not offer a valid string conversion nothing will
>> change compared to what we had before. So the only thing done is that you
>> now can implement objects that can be used as strings like simplexml_element.
>> An extension like that cannot be programmed so elegant than without havin it.
>> Besides that we convert all other types automatially whereever we are and
> Uh, but that's where you are wrong. We don't convert all types
> automatically, but only the simple (scalar) types. Objects, arrays, and
> resources are a different matter.
And now we don't do this either - we only do it for objects if an object
wants to be converted, like a SimpleXML_element object.
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Best regards,
Marcus mailto:helly@php.net