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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 15:10:36 +0200
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To: Lars Strojny <lars@strojny.net>
Cc: Will Fitch <wfitch@meetme.com>, Ryan McCue <lists@rotorised.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC for Adding __toString to DateTime
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi Lars,

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Lars Strojny <lars@strojny.net> wrote:

>   Ease debugging by allowing "echo $date;" instead of "echo $date->format(...);"

Ooch. If that's the only goal, it makes no sense to add that.

However I see many useful usages like passing date object to templates
and the likes (while tpl system can implement it cleanly too, but it
spares some code duplication all over the apps).

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye