> > > 2. Introduce base class for all PHP classes. E.g. Object. It would >> help >> in type hinting and allow to add new common methods without any magic. >> > Introduce a type-hint “object” would be better I think. It would replace > is_object call.
I wonder how much BC breakage there would be introducing an Object class / type-hint though. Right now it's perfectly acceptable to define a class called Object (or object). An ugly solution could be to re-use stdClass as the base of all classes.
