Re: property de-referencing

2013/4/30 Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> > On 04/30/2013 01:58 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> I'm proposing we need a way to statically reference an object property - > >> the object property itself, not it's value: > > > > You probably have use case for that, and it should be pretty easy to > > write a class that does that, but why it should be in the language? It > > certainly doesn't look like something sizeable portion of PHP devs would > > do frequently. > > It is certainly not worth overloading the XOR operator for. > > -Rasmus > > In C#, they had the intention to introduce the operator infoof(...) to get the reflection, not only of properties, but of virtually everything in the language. They abandoned the idea because it is really hard to do that for overloaded functions and they did not want to do all that work for a half baked feature: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/05/21/in-foof-we-trust-a-dialogue.aspx However, PHP does not have overloaded functions, which makes things significantly easier, so maybe it is worth examining the idea. Lazare INEPOLOGLOU Ingénieur Logiciel