note 88460 deleted from language.types.object by danbrown

Note Submitter: Hayley Watson ---- Another reply to bob: Explicit types of objects are good, as wbcarts, and Rick's solution is the one I use for a throwaway generic object (and I do have uses for them), but there is another way to create a new naked object and it _is_ documented on this very page. "If a value of any other type is converted to an object, a new instance of the stdClass built-in class is created. If the value was NULL, the new instance will be empty." In code: $obj = (object)null; $obj->blah = 3; That might still be regarded as "ghetto" - especially since Rick's suggestion is more explicit - but it is better than a random unset.