I really don't want to be annoying but from the end user's POV spl_object_hash sounds like a function which returns a hash but not an identity. Any tiny chance it will be available as object_get_id in PHP6? ;)
It does give the hash, which is unique for each object. In which form would you expect object_get_id to return object's identity? PHP doesn't have a type of "tuple of C pointer and long integer" ;)
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