Can we use reflection to inspect the properties in the order that they're written, or the order that the parser found public/protected/private keywords and properties.
Paul. On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Johannes Schlüter > <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: > > > > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:22, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> I'm curious whether the ORDER of the class properties returned by > >>> get_class_vars(), is in some way guaranteed. I do not find mention of > it > >>> in the documentation. > >>> > >> > >> The only real guarantee is that of how the class properties are stored > >> in the hashtable. get_class_vars() is essentially just reading from a > >> hashtable of class properties. > > > > There's no such guarantee. The fact that it is using a Hashtable which > has an order is an implementation detail. This might change (even though a > change is unlikely) The only promise of get_class_vars() is to return all. > > > > Right, I should have said "there's no guarantee at all", but what I > was trying to say was that this isn't really by guarantee of > get_class_vars(). Just the fact that this particular implementation > detail is unlikely to change is what makes it a convenient side > effect. > > Sorry, that was poorly worded. > > > johannes > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
