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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] get_class_vars() returned information ORDER
From: dragoonis@gmail.com (Paul Dragoonis)

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Can we use reflection to inspect the properties in the order that they're
written, or the order that the parser found public/protected/private
keywords and properties.

Paul.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>wro=
te:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Johannes Schl=FCter
> <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:22, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I'm curious whether the ORDER of the class properties returned by
> >>> get_class_vars(), is in some way guaranteed. I do not find mention of
> it
> >>> in the documentation.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The only real guarantee is that of how the class properties are stored
> >> in the hashtable. get_class_vars() is essentially just reading from a
> >> hashtable of class properties.
> >
> > There's no such guarantee. The fact that it is using a Hashtable which
> has an order is an implementation detail. This might change (even though =
a
> change is unlikely) The only promise of get_class_vars() is to return all=
.
> >
>
> Right, I should have said "there's no guarantee at all", but what I
> was trying to say was that this isn't really by guarantee of
> get_class_vars(). Just the fact that this particular implementation
> detail is unlikely to change is what makes it a convenient side
> effect.
>
> Sorry, that was poorly worded.
>
> > johannes
> >
>
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