Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:95072 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14954 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2016 09:25:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2016 09:25:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.230 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.230 mail4-3.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.230] ([217.147.176.230:51388] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9B/39-56950-7269DA75 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2016 05:25:59 -0400 Received: (qmail 26166 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2016 09:25:56 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 26160, pid: 26163, t: 0.0672s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.7?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 12 Aug 2016 09:25:56 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <10fbcb03-5de8-4d9a-da1c-7e2bf77937cb@lsces.co.uk> <5657afc7-7569-5fc4-4a5a-27ed786c4fa5@gmail.com> <0825c173-5cb4-7f65-cf34-b45ca30919a3@lsces.co.uk> <8646c3ad-b929-cb0b-bad4-52a0a7160d16@gmail.com> <11ce571b-964b-5a3e-9f2f-3f69a8bc20b4@lsces.co.uk> <7d9db8d5-ae7a-4123-14f4-f76fb6d764c5@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1e14c4b9-65ce-4742-589f-19fe9290be0f@lsces.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:25:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple variable handling. From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 12/08/16 10:07, Christoph M. Becker wrote: >> > I'm thinking >> > $var->setConstraint() >> > $var->setEscape() >> > $var->setReadOnly() >> > >> > Rather than having to build 'reflections' classes to pull out data that >> > a simple $var->is_valid or echo $var will output a correctly escaped >> > piece of text. > Actually, this is already possible; just use objects. E.g. > > class Container { > function __construct() {} > function setConstraint() {} > function setEscape() {} > function setReadOnly() {} > function isValid() {} > function __toString() {} > } > $var = new Container($some_value); This has been the problem all along. There is no overriding reason to change what we already have, but ALL of the improvements currently being discussed MAY be better handled with a return to the basic model of a variable. If a variable is 'readonly' there is no need to worry about each variable. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk