Sara Golemon wrote:
Would you say it's possible that one can maintain i as class
property with write access through references?
Nope, because PHP variables are loose typed.
Say you *did* have some way to bind my_obj->i to a userspace variable
(e.g.: $i =& $this->i; ). The next instruction could say $i =
'foo';, then what is the engine supposed to do with that?
If you want i to have any visibility in userspace, then it needs to
be a zval, and that means it can be modified, and that means that
you'll need to be prepared to re-cast it back to the right type
later. Kinda sucks, but it sucks for a good reason...
Uhm... you're so right, thanks, that cleared my mind and makes me remember my
first post to the list ;)
Thank you,
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