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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] __debugInfo()
From: cryptocompress@googlemail.com (Crypto Compress)

>
> If you're bug hunting with var_dump(), you are not adverse to 
> temporarily hacking at source code to add debug statements at weird 
> places.
As this method has "debug" in it, it's purpose is uncontroversial 
bughinting. Isn't it?
How many objects are in a avarage orm to temporarily be hacked? In 
comparison to var_dump($wholeObjectGraph) justifiable?

> You're probably also hacking out all your normal exception handling 
> and output formatting to get the dump to display on screen.  So why 
> wouldn't you be prepared to hack this too?

Why display on screen? $foo->log(print_r($bar, true)); is impossible too.