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

On 04/30/2013 03:24 PM, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> Are we really going to quibble about syntax? This adds nothing to this
> discussion. And as I explained earlier, the ^ operator is used for the sake
> of discussion only - if it's more practical to use another character for
> this operator, I don't care what it looks like.

The point is that there is no operator that fits and the reason you
didn't come up with one that didn't clash with something else. If this
can even be implemented, which doesn't seem all that certain without a
lot of messy changes, it should just be a reflection call.

-Rasmus