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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] property de-referencing
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 04/30/2013 01:58 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> I'm proposing we need a way to statically reference an object property -
>> the object property itself, not it's value:
> 
> You probably have use case for that, and it should be pretty easy to
> write a class that does that, but why it should be in the language? It
> certainly doesn't look like something sizeable portion of PHP devs would
> do frequently.

It is certainly not worth overloading the XOR operator for.

-Rasmus