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Re: __toString()

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Andi Gutmans

22 years ago

It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as SimpleXML
which require this.
Also in Java toString() isn't called automagically in every place so I
wouldn't call it useless.

Andi

At 08:56 AM 12/14/2003 +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

Sebastian Bergmann

22 years ago

Andi Gutmans wrote:

> It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as
> SimpleXML which require this.

How is it supported by "print" when

print $defect->thrownException()

does not work but the object returned from thrownException() has a
__toString() method?

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Cristiano Duarte

22 years ago

Em Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:41:10 +0100, Sebastian Bergmann escreveu:

> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as
>> SimpleXML which require this.
>
>   How is it supported by "print" when
>
>     print $defect->thrownException()
>
>   does not work but the object returned from thrownException() has a
>   __toString() method?

IMHO I think it should be supported by print (echo). Without,
this support, it will be only a naming convention...

Cristiano Duarte