On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 12:54 -0500, Ralph Schindler wrote:
>
>
> I must have left the public in there when I posted it to twitter.
> I'd
> have to say it's a little unintuitive when the properties are
> protected,
> but all in all, I don't dislike the behavior. Perhaps this just
> needs
> to b
Frankly, a magic method sounds like a much better solution than
auto-magically converting objects to arrays.
The problem with automatic conversion, is that the order of properties is
an implementation detail - the vsprintf() example perfectly illustrates the
problem:
class User
{
public $firs
Well, since I was the one who posted it
(https://twitter.com/ralphschindler/status/327084619507855361), I'll
further explain it. I realized it was doing this when actually running
this kind of snippet:
http://3v4l.org/ZkE6B
I must have left the public in there when I posted it to twitter. I
Richard,
Oh! Another magic method opportunity ...
>
> /**
> * Operates just like __toString(), but returns an array.
> */
> public function __toArray();
>
>
> (ducking)
I know you're joking, but this has been brought up before (and I intend to
bring it up again): https://wiki.php.net/rfc/obje
On 24 April 2013 17:31, Richard Bradley wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rasmus Schultz [mailto:ras...@mindplay.dk]
> > Sent: 24 April 2013 16:45
> > To: PHP internals
> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] vsprintf()
> >
> > This is all kinds of wrong:
> >
> > http://3v4l.org/UZFME
> >
> > So the
> -Original Message-
> From: Rasmus Schultz [mailto:ras...@mindplay.dk]
> Sent: 24 April 2013 16:45
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] vsprintf()
>
> This is all kinds of wrong:
>
> http://3v4l.org/UZFME
>
> So the order in which the properties were defined is the magic that makes
>
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 11:45 -0400, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> This is all kinds of wrong:
>
> http://3v4l.org/UZFME
>
> So the order in which the properties were defined is the magic that makes
> this work.
>
> Wow. WTF?
>
> Do I need to explain in detail why this is all kinds of effed up?
vsprin
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
>
> Do I need to explain in detail why this is all kinds of effed up?
>
>
Yes, I'd like that explanation.
