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Subject: [PATCH] Make var_export() output "(object)array(..." instead of
 "stdClass::__set_state(..." for stdClass
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi everyone,

Since stdClass has no __set_state method, var_export() produces unusable 
output if given an object of that class. I wrote a patch that would make 
var_export() produce a cast to object instead, which could be evaluated 
to get back a stdClass:

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2420

Any thoughts/comments?

If you're wondering about whether a __set_state method should be added 
to stdClass, I posted some thoughts in the pull request discussion already.

Thanks!
-- 
Andrea Faulds
https://ajf.me/