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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:31:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] __toString()
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

Give me a couple of days to review the patch itself.
I think we should then commit to HEAD, and see how it goes. There's 
hopefully enough time in the PHP 6 process to validate that this kind 
of patch doesn't hit any conceptual problems re: propagating to 
pre-compile/post-shutdown execution stages...

Andi

At 05:36 AM 9/25/2005, Marcus Boerger wrote:
>Hello internals,
>
>   the patch implements __toString to have obejcts be automatically converted
>to strings anywhere a string is requested. We have talked a lot about this
>in the past and during OSCON Andi agreed again on it and said that the HEAD
>version of the engine should be ready for it now. Futher more we have enough
>time to fix any outstanding engine issues regarding this.
>
>   http://php.net/~helly/php/ext/ze2/ze2-tostring-20050925.diff.txt
>
>   If nobody objects with a real technical issue i'll commit the patch early
>in the week.
>
>   The patch is a little big longer because it ensures that __toString gets
>treated and especially gets cached just like any other magic function is.
>
>Best regards,
>  Marcus
>
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