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To: Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net>,internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] __toString()
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as SimpleXML 
which require this.
Also in Java toString() isn't called automagically in every place so I 
wouldn't call it useless.

Andi

At 08:56 AM 12/14/2003 +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>   The following code from PHPUnit stopped working after the recent changes
>   to __toString()
>
>      protected function printDefectTrace(PHPUnit_Framework_TestFailure
>      $defect) {
>          print $defect->thrownException() . "\n";
>
>          print PHPUnit_Runner_BaseTestRunner::getFilteredStack(
>            $defect->thrownException()
>          );
>      }
>
>   The
>
>     print $defect->thrownException() . "\n";
>
>   line worked fine before and printed the result of
>
>     $defect->thrownException()->__toString()
>
>   Is this the intended behaviour?
>
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