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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Missing __toString() part
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

At 08:22 AM 6/4/2006, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>MB>>  the classname doesn't help, it is the handler that you need. In
>MB>>theory you can have two objects with the same id and classname but not
>MB>>with the same id and handler table.
>
>Yes, theoretically you could have two modules returning same class names
>for their objects, though it would be extremely bad practice to do it.
>
>Bigger problem is, however, that object handler doesn't really have to
>give you any meaningful class name at all - for all it worth it can always
>return something like "No class name".

We should probably make this a requirement and I don't know of one 
today that doesn't have an associated class name. I believe some 
parts of PHP might blow up if this isn't supported.

Andi