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Subject: toString() and Object #ID
From: schultz@widescreen.ch (Lars Schultz)

Hi there

I just tried to switch from 5.1 to 5.2.3 and got thrown off right away by:
"Object of class MyObject could not be converted to string"

I googled a bit and also read any Messages in the internals list but 
couldn't find a decisive answer as to wether this will stay this way or not. 


In the "PHP 5 Bug Summary Report" I found Bug # 40799
"change string conversion behaviour for objects not implementing 
__toString()"

which is still open. I don't want to complain or anything but I'd like 
to know wether it's feasible to wait for a change in this current, 
modified, behaviour or if it's going to stay this way.

I used the previous behaviour mostly for debugging purposes where I 
wanted to get a visual (string) handle for any given object, which helps 
ALOT when trying to figure out wether one has a copy or the original and 
wether to references point to the same object....(obj1 === obj2 is not 
always helpful). Is there any other way than casting an object to a 
string to get an objects #ID?

Thanks for your time.
Lars