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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:58:09 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Making stdClass iterable
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 14:48, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, it has no methods, and matches no type checks other than itself
> and "object"; in a sense, it doesn't even have any properties, just the
> ability to add them dynamically. To me, that makes sense: it's the
> "classless object", the absolute bare minimum any object could be.
>

Apologies for the multiple replies, but it just occurred to me that with
anonymous classes, we can define something even more minimal:

$foo = new class {};
$bar = new stdClass;

Given that stdClass is returned as a "default structureless object" by a
lot of internal functions, what is the justification for $foo and $bar here
behaving differently?

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]

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