Hello Michael, actually your class could have another object with get/set handlers implemented, nothing more. This could be mapped through the handlers to your int i.
marcus Friday, October 28, 2005, 10:44:42 PM, you wrote: > 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, > -- > Michael - <mike(@)php.net> > http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
