please keep replies on list.

Philip Thompson schreef:
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:59 AM, Jochem Maas wrote:
> 
>> Philip Thompson schreef:
>>> Hi all.
>>
>> ....
>>
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts? Does this seem like a reasonable implementation?
>>> Useful? Pointless? Hit me up - I can handle *constructive* criticism.
>>> But for now, it's late and past my bedtime.
>>
>> how do you set a property to null?
> 
> Oh sure, point that out! JK. I thought of that as well. For members
> where 'null' is an option, you may just want to create a definitive
> accessor or modify the __call() function. Use a string to represent null
> - I'll use 'nil' from objective-c. Something like this...

yes but then someone might want to set the value to 'nil' or '__nil'
or any other magic value you might want to use.

what about capturing a method name prefix:

$person->unsetFirst();

> <?php
> public function __call ($member, $args)
> {
>     if (property_exists ('Person', $member)) {
>         if (empty ($args)) {
>             list ($value) = $this->$member;
>             return $value;
>         }
> 
>         // Test to see if value is 'nil'. If so, set to null.
>         if (!is_array ($args[0]) && $args[0] == 'nil') {
>             $args[0] = null;
>         }
> 
>         $this->$member = $args;
>     }
>     else {
>         die ("Fatal Error: Call to undefined member: $member. Exiting...");
>     }
> }
> 
> $person = new Person();
> $person->first('Billy');
> $person->first('nil');
> ?>
> 
> I suppose it's a possibility that someone will assign 'nil' to a member
> as an actual value, so put in some more checking or modify the null
> keyword - maybe '__nil' or whatever? That a possibility?



> 
> Cheers,
> ~Phil


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