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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:13:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple variable handling.
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 12/08/2016 10:52, Lester Caine wrote:
> I think the idea *I* am throwing out for discussion is a switch from
> global_library($var, ... ) to $var->global_library( ... ) where $var is
> now always an object without having every framework creating it's own
> version of the wrapper?

So kind of an extension to the "scalar objects" idea (e.g. 
https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects) such that variables can have 
arbitrary properties / state rather than just the syntax sugar of 
->methodCall() ?

One problem I can see is that like with references and objects, the 
meaning of assignment has to change somehow:

$foo = 'hello world';
$foo->setReadonly();
var_dump($foo->isReadonly()); // TRUE

$bar = $foo;
var_dump($bar->isReadonly()); // ? same value, different variable

$foo = 'goodbye world';
var_dump($foo->isReadonly()); // ? same variable, different value

Of course, the same applies whenever you pass the variable into a 
function, or return it from one...

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]