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Subject: Re: [RFC] Help debugging overloaded objects
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

>   the attached patch introduces a new handler to the engine that is
> supposed to help debugging overloaded objects. It allows to return a
> temporary hash rather then the object properties. This way an extension
> can show non properties in var_dump() and print_r(). It will be used
> in extensions like SimpleXML. To show how it will look like the changes
> for said extension are alsopresent. Last but not least the handler can
> be NULL in which case the old behavior is maintained. If noone objects
> I will commit this by the end of the week.
> 
> Any comments?
>
Looks useful, I like it.
+1

-Sara