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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:16:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Pseudo-objects (methods on arrays, strings, etc.)
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:

> I disagree - I do not think we need pseudo-objects. If the only point of
> the exercise is to convert a call of array_pop to $array->pop, it's not
> worth it. It'd just make the language more messy - you wouldn't know
> what -> means anymore.

pseudo object for the reasons Rasmus mentioned in his previous post.

Having pure object would be not efficient enough and brings its lot of
caveats. Also it is important to keep in mind that this idea does not
apply only to array but to other types as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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