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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Arrays which have properties of sets
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Oct 7, 2012 3:10 AM, "Rasmus Schultz" <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote:
>
> Since I was the one who started this discussion, I'd like to reply to
> some of these points.
>
> First off, let me say - as you pointed out, when the values are
> unique, they are best represented
> as keys... however, this of course applies only to value-types, which
> isn't the problem, and not
> why I started this conversation in the first place. Objects don't work
> as keys. And objects do
> not always have a value that you can use as keys.

Object hash may be what you are looking for.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.spl-object-hash.php

Cheers,
Pierre

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