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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:41:36 +0200
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To: Michael Wallner <mike@php.net>
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Florian Margaine <florian@margaine.com>, 
	Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Invokation on __toString() for object used as array key
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Sep 24, 2014 10:19 AM, "Michael Wallner" <mike@php.net> wrote:
>
> On 24/09/14 08:30, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> Well, then let's remove this restriction from resources, too.
> >
> > Not sure what use would it be for resources - resource IDs are not
> > controlled by user code and for all intents and purposes are opaque
> > numbers, which also do not have to be unique over the life of the
> > script. What use would it be to index by those, especially by implicit
> > convert? I don't think right now we have implicit convert of resources
> > to ints anywhere, like we do have with __toString.
> >
>
> There's currently no way to associate any data with a resource, except
> by its ID.
>
> $context[(int) $resource] = ...;
>
> IIRC resources *were* implicitely converted to integers up until a
> specific version, I'll have to look that up in history, though.
>

I also wonder why we still need them. Doing what has been done with gmp for
all resources would be a good move for 7.

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