Re: property de-referencing

From: Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:12:15 +0000
Subject: Re: property de-referencing
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Hi! > 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|bÍinº–¨N• > ½â > > However, PHP does not have overloaded functions, which makes things > significantly easier, so maybe it is worth examining the idea. PHP has functions that can be result of __call or arbitrary code that implements fcall handler in an extension. What would be returned then? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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