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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:46:04 -0700
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To: Chris Trahey <ctrahey@csisd.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] reference caller object
From: chrisstocktonaz@gmail.com (Chris Stockton)

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Trahey <ctrahey@csisd.org> wrote:
> (Please direct me elsewhere if necessary, this is a feature request)
>
> It would be handy to allow a method to behave differently based on who is
> calling it.
> the function I am looking for would essentially do this:
> .. snip ..

Type hinting would be a clean approach, I can not see a argument why
the below would be less correct.

public function registerMe(Loadable $oLoadable) {
       if( ! ($this->authenticateMod($oLoadable))) throw new
admin_exception('module
not active');
       $this->loadedMods[$oLoadable->module_id()] = $oLoadable;
       return $oLoadable->onLoad();
}