Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: SESS: objects containing objects *final statement*(?)please read!

Zeev Suraski wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Stig Bakken wrote: > > > I was thinking about storing it in the object, if two extra character > > > pointers doesn't mean too much overhead. Actually, a better name would > > > be set_object_serialize_method(), because it would only let you set one > > > at a time. > > > > Sorry, storing them how? In object properties? Under what key? > > I completely agree with Thies here; There's no reason not to make these > standard names at the language level. As a matter of fact, there's > already a function in Zend called to_string(), that is used to print out > the object, if it exists (instead of printing 'Object'). ~ (doing the wave) and +1 for making it part of the language. > I think the best approach would be to change the semantics of to_string() > to actually return a string, instead of printing it out, so that it could > be used for serialization. Wouldn't that more or less do the same as serialize? I agree that it should return a value in any case. - Stig