On Sat, September 23, 2006 10:39 am, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 23 Sep 2006, at 16:37, Ray Hauge wrote: > >> Could you do something like this? >> >> $private = "Myclass" >> $protected = "*"; > > No, because if I have a property called 'Myclassfield1', after > casting to an array I can't tell if it's private property called > 'field1' or a public property called 'Myclassfield1'. Don't do that. :-) > I think it's just plain wrong. Arrays should not try to be objects. > You can find out protection level of a property via introspection of > the object that you have in hand. In the vast majority of cases, > you'll want it to act just like the docs say it does, and if you > don't, you should probably be using the object itself anyway. Perhaps it would also be accurate to say that Objects should not try to be Arrays? :-) Seriously. I mean, the type coercion object->array made sense in PHP3 and even PHP4 where an Object was not much more than a glorified struct, or an array with some extra baggage. You start using that PHP5 private/protected stuff, and it just doesn't make sense to coerce it to an array, imho. YMMV -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
