Hi! > How come it's necessary to store the property-names of every property > in every object? For properties that have been defined in classes, why > can't they be stored in a more efficient manner? (using lookup tables)
No because you can add and remove properties freely at runtime. > I know the nature of PHP is dynamic, and I know that dynamic > properties would have to be stored in a key/value form internally... > but if you look at modern PHP software, dynamic properties is actually > something very few people use. This is not true. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php