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).

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