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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Missing __toString() part
From: shiznatz@gmail.com ("Robert Amos")

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As far as I can see, and I'm sure someone will be kind enough to correct me
if I'm wrong, but there is no current behaviour for it, it returns a
warning.

$a = new stdClass;
$b[$a] = 0;

Warning: Illegal offset type in t3.php on line 2

And results in an empty array (in this case) so it does nothing.

-bok

On 6/5/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, June 3, 2006 6:42 am, Marcus Boerger wrote:
> >   the attached patch closes one more __toString() part. It allows
> > to use objects that define __toString as indexes to arrays. What do
> > you guys think about this, should we add it or stay with the old
> > behavior that didn't allow objects as indexes at all.
>
> I use objects rarely, and am not sure I care all that much, but...
>
> Seems to me that there is a REALLY good chance that there ARE scripts
> "out there" that rely on current behaviour of:
>
> $a = new Foo();
> $arr[$a] = 42;
>
> Never mind that that's a really dumb thing to have -- Somebody is
> relying on it doing whatever it does...
>
> Whether that is erroring out or just turning all objects into ""
> doesn't matter.  Somebody relies on it doing the same thing it always
> did.
>
> Don't break that, please, in 5.2 -- Do whatever you want in 6.0 on that.
>
> This all seems like much ado about nothing to me.  Anybody brainy
> enough to NEED their objects as array indices can probably manage to
> write a function to uniquely identify their/all objects.
>
> Sorry if my votes aren't fitting into the schema of voting...  I kinda
> got glassy-eyed with this whole thread, to tell the truth.
>
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