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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New function: spl_object_id() or spl_object_handle()
From: bostjan@a2o.si (Bostjan Skufca)

On 28 November 2014 at 07:04, Joe Watkins <pthreads@pthreads.org> wrote:
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>         I don't think so, there is talk of removing object handles in 7.

Could you point me to a discussion about this? Tnx.



>         Even if we intended to keep object handles, this leaks implementation
> details that we don't really want leaked.

I understand your concern, but I think being able to uniquely identify
objects should be PHP feature and not a leaked implementation detail.

Looking into other languages:
- ruby has obj.object_id
- python has id(obj) which is functionally equal to spl_object_hash(),
I can not find anything about unique ID for now
- perl has Object::ID module


b.