On 6 May 2010 08:55, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 May 2010 17:25, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I'm in the process of getting the PHPDoc classes showing the correct >> inherited properties and methods (public/protected but not private). >> >> I picked RecursiveRegexIterator (it has the largest number of >> xi:includes in the documentation) as a test. >> >> Using php --rc I see that the inheritance chain is >> RecursiveRegexIterator, RegexIterator, FilterIterator and >> IteratorIterator. >> >> The property $replacement is part of RegexIterator. >> >> I can see no documentation for this in phpdoc, nor in the Doxygen at >> http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/ >> >> >> In all the examples I've made so far, var_dump()-ing the RegexIterator >> results in a ["replacement"]=>NULL >> >> Assigning a value to $replacement seems to have no bearing on the output. > > I believe the intention was to give that property a value which could > be used with RegexIterator::REPLACE mode but that particular mode has > not yet been fully implemented. There is a related bug ( > http://bugs.php.net/50579 ) that has not been assigned; I can't say > what the plan is for if/when the replacement mode will get some > attention. See also: the PHP implementation of RegexIterator ( > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/ext/spl/internal/regexiterator.inc?view=markup > ). > >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard. >> >> >> -- >> ----- >> Richard Quadling >> "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" >> EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html >> EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp >> Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 >> ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling >> >
So, this should be documented as what? As we don't document the future, I think this property should be omitted from the RegexIterator documentation until such time the property is useful. Basically, leave it as is. Yes? -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
