On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 10:22, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm curious whether the ORDER of the class properties returned by >>> get_class_vars(), is in some way guaranteed. I do not find mention of it >>> in the documentation. >>> >> >> The only real guarantee is that of how the class properties are stored >> in the hashtable. get_class_vars() is essentially just reading from a >> hashtable of class properties. > > There's no such guarantee. The fact that it is using a Hashtable which has an > order is an implementation detail. This might change (even though a change is > unlikely) The only promise of get_class_vars() is to return all. >
Right, I should have said "there's no guarantee at all", but what I was trying to say was that this isn't really by guarantee of get_class_vars(). Just the fact that this particular implementation detail is unlikely to change is what makes it a convenient side effect. Sorry, that was poorly worded. > johannes > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
