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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:58:21 -0400
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To: ALeX <lists.php@tx0.eu>
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Subject: Re: [lists.php] Re: [PHP-DEV] property de-referencing
From: rasmus@mindplay.dk (Rasmus Schultz)

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I don't think that's necessary - the point of being able to do this, is to
apply meta-programming techniques, so in most situations, what matters is
the ability to quickly create object/property-references... using them will
usually happen inside some service component, e.g. a form-helper or
object/relational-mapper. Having a short syntax for that is much less
relevant - what matters if easy (and of course static) creation of
references to those objects/properties.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:36 PM, ALeX <lists.php@tx0.eu> wrote:

> Just an idea: why not also use ^ (or another operator) to access the
> value? (maybe as an additional way to get/setValue)
>
> $foo = ^$user->name;
>
> echo 'Hello '.^$foo;
> ^$foo = 'Bob';
>
> (using the same operator will conflict when you are accessing a
> property of an object which is a PropertyReference)
>

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