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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:24:00 -0400
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To: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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	PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] property de-referencing
From: rasmus@mindplay.dk (Rasmus Schultz)

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That looks more pointless than evil to me - and no, I'm not suggesting
anything of that sort.

I'm proposing we need a way to statically reference an object property -
the object property itself, not it's value:

    var_dump($user->name); // =3D> 'Rasmus'

    var_dump(^$user->name); // =3D> PropertyReference(class: 'User',
propertyName: 'name', object:User(...))

    $foo =3D ^$user->name;

    var_dump($foo->getValue()); // =3D> 'Rasmus'

    $foo->setValue('Bob');

    var_dump($user->name); // =3D> 'Bob'

Is that easier to understand?

- Rasmus Schultz


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2013.04.30. 14:00, "Rasmus Schultz" <rasmus@mindplay.dk> ezt =EDrta:
>
> >
> > >
> > > Do you mean something yucky like http://pecl.php.net/propro?
> > >
> > >
> > I don't know what that is, and there is no description on that page.
>
> you can grasp the concept from the testcase:
>
> http://git.php.net/?p=3Dpecl/php/propro.git;a=3Dblob_plain;f=3Dtests/001.=
phpt;hb=3DHEAD
>
>

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