Re: Immutability RFC
| From: | Ryan Pallas | Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:29:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Immutability RFC | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Silvio Marijić <marijic.silvio@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To anyone who is interested in this RFC. What do you think what behavour we
> should have when you try to compare two immutable objects by identity like
> this:
>
> immutable class A {
>
> public $a;
>
> public function __construct($a) {
> $this->a = $a
> }
>
> }
>
> $a1 = new A(1);
> $a2 = new A(1);
>
I would personally expect that:
var_dump($a1 === $a2); // bool(false)
var_dump($a1 == $a2); // bool(true)
>
> $a1 === $a2
>
> If we treat those objects as values then this should return true. But then
> again there might be some confusion because then two operators are doing
> the same thing. Maybe throw an error ? Suggestions ?
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Silvio Marijić
> Software Engineer
> 2e Systems
>