On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, nat...@starin.biz wrote:
> I wanted some thought from you guys about the idea of giving PHP scripts the
> ability to read some internal information about variables such as ZVals.
>
>
>
> The idea of how this reflection class would work would be something like:
>
>
>
> Class ReflectionZVal {
>
> // Retains info about the variable referenced
>
> function __construct(&$variable);
That's inherently flawed, as passing a variable in can modify it's
refcount and is_ref states. This is why Xdebug's equivalent wants a
string with the variable name instead:
http://xdebug.org/docs/all_functions#xdebug_debug_zval
> // Returns if the referenced variable
>
> function valueExists();
What's a "referenced variable" here? If you pass in something, it will
exist.
cheers,
Derick
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