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Subject: [php6] OOP resources
From: php@marc-bennewitz.de (Marc Bennewitz)

Hi,

here another idea for PHP 6 the simply means removing the datatype
"resource" because and convert current resources into classes/objects
as it's already done with GMP.

Because resources are simply a pointer to a somewhere described data
structure - resources are the exactly the use case for objects.

To be bc current resources should be instances of an interface
"Resource" and the function "is_resource" would work similar as
"$resource instanceof Resource".

I haven't enough knowledge about the internals but couldn't that be
implemented in a bc way by changing resource macros to handle objects?

Thoughts,
Marc