Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5190 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 21976 invoked by uid 1010); 5 Nov 2003 06:44:51 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 21810 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 06:44:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 06:44:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 25419 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 06:43:59 -0000 Received: from guardian.zend.office (HELO andi-laptop.zend.com) (10.1.1.4) by int.zend.com with SMTP; 5 Nov 2003 06:43:59 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031105084256.03256138@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 08:43:54 +0200 To: LingWitt@insightbb.com,LingWitt@insightbb.com Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: <457640B1-0E01-11D8-97C5-000393030CE6@insightbb.com> <457640B1-0E01-11D8-97C5-000393030CE6@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array Keys From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) At 09:14 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, LingWitt@insightbb.com wrote: >I don't want to seem naggish, but what do you think? > >On 3 Nov 2003, at 8:26 AM, LingWitt@insightbb.com wrote: > >> Now that objects are accounted for by references and id, it >> should be possible to use them as keys in an associative array. That >> might be an interesting feature to have. I don't think it's a good idea because it would break lots of other things such as foreach(). keys have to be integers or strings. I suggest you create key() methods and call those, i.e., $obj->key() Sorry, Andi