On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:32:57AM -0500, George Schlossnagle wrote: > >Nope. How is it different or nicer than doing > >$defect->thrownException()->__toString()? > >It saves you 4 characters? > > If it doesn't do anything 'magical', why bother with the __? If you > always have to call it manually, it should be an interface: > > interface Stringable { > public function toString(); > } > > And that way extensions and user code both can decide if they want to > give special treatment to objects that implement Stringable.
I think that's reasonable, although I think it's generally useful for all objects to implicitly implement 'Stringable' (in the same way that they all implement "Cloneable", via the __clone() method, today). -- Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php