Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:7129 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62765 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Jan 2004 18:04:11 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62718 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2004 18:04:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO miranda.org) (209.58.150.153) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2004 18:04:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 28601 invoked by uid 546); 15 Jan 2004 18:04:09 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jan 2004 18:04:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:04:09 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: adam@miranda.org To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: __toString() with strval() and settype() From: adam@trachtenberg.com (Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg) Question: Given an object, $obj, should strval($obj) and settype($obj, 'string') return $obj->__toString() if it exists? They currently do not, but (string) $obj does. Are these three operations supposed to be identical, but with different syntax? Or are there other differences among them? -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today!