Re: [RFC] Using objects as keys

On 30/10/14 17:42, Rowan Collins wrote: > The use case which came up recently was UString objects, which can > easily be converted to and from plain PHP strings, but would be useful > as keys in their own right. With current PHP you could do $foo[ > (string)$u_str ] = $bar; with the proposed RFC, you could do $foo[ > $u_str ] = $bar with the same result; but either way, you would still > need to convert *back* to an object in order to use any of the UString > methods in a foreach(), array_walk(), etc. I would still like to see the debate on proper use of unicode IN PHP strings. Pushing that problem into objects is just as wrong as this debate. If I'm using a unicode colation to sort a set of array keys then the KEY should be unicode, not yet another handle to a secondary object which the needs to be sorted ... but then perhaps we need this fiddle to avoid the complexity that unicode can create? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk