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From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

> I know that many people here will say that it=E2=80=99s not that importan=
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> developers get used to this API and many tutorials based on it.

As you guessed, I don't think this is so important that we should
create a new "fake" object syntax for scalar. That's shooting a mouse
with an elephant gun.