AD>>> AD>>It looks like this bug was done intentionally (I'm not sure, just
AD>>> AD>an>assumption), so zend_std_get_property_ptr_ptr() doesn't call
AD>>> AD>__get.
AD>>>
AD>>> I'm not sure it should - this would confuse read/write operators like
AD>>> object increments.
AD>>
AD>>Hmm.. could you provide any examples?
AD>>I just want to test them with the patch and see maybe I can adopt it.

The idea is that when r/w operator tries to work on object property, he
can do it two ways:
1. call get_ptr_ptr, receive actual zval and do whatever it wants on it
2. some objects - like Java object representations, for example - can not
return actual zval for property. For them, get_ptr_ptr returns null and
then r/w operator call getter, does whatever it wants and calls setter on
it.

Now the question is what we want to do on the object having
getters/setters in PHP - do we want it to behave like 1 or like 2? I'd say
behaviour 2 is the most logical, since we don't even know if the getter
returns modifyable variable - and in most cases it won't, so if you have
some object $foo with getter and setter and you do $foo->x++, it should do
get, then ++ on the result and the set, since if you just do get and ++,
it probably won't have the necessary effect.

We could approach this with another idea - making __get return reference
(of course, if code author feels it is the right thing to do)  and thus
tell the get_ptr_ptr that it is "kosher" for using in r/w contexts. I did
not explore this idea yet sufficiently to say that it would work in all
the cases. This also needs still some handling in cases __get doesn't
return the reference - the engine still have to resort to get/set.
However, I am pretty sure that just using __get as it is on get_ptr_ptr
would break the r/w operations in some cases.

AD>>
AD>>>I think it should be talen care of elsewhere.
AD>>
AD>>Any ideas where?

In the place where get_ptr_ptr is called. I didn't look yet into this
particular case - I'll try to do it when I'm back to work (meaning Friday
or Sunday).
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