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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] DateTime improvement
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Stas Malyshev wrote:

> > Al the methods will *still* return the modified DateTime object - 
> > it's just that the one that you *call* f.e. ->modify() on won't 
> > change anymore.
> 
> Doesn't it mean you can just call clone() on it in modifier methods 
> before doing anything else?

Yeah, I think so. I tried that but I got some errors. It's something for 
me to sort out. So far, I've just created all the helper methods etc. 
clone() however is not a method, but a language construct... so it's not 
that trivial.

cheers,
Derick