[PHP-BUG] Req #51598 [NEW]: String Objects?

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PHP version:      6SVN-2010-04-19 (snap)
Package:          Strings related
Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
Bug description:String Objects?

Description:
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To make PHP more object-oriented it would be useful to give primitives
(Strings 
especially, as they have a large number of related functions) a more OO 
interface.

In the same way PHP5 introduced ArrayObject, it would be useful to create a

StringObject in PHP6.

E.g. example usage:

<?php
//Some example usage
$str = 'Foo';
echo $str->toLower();
echo $str->replace('Foo', 'Bar');
echo $str->replace('Foo', 'Bar')->toLower(); //ideally needs inbuilt
support for 
chaining
echo $str; //could be done using __toString()
?>

This can be achieved at the moment by defining a StringObject class and
using 
$str = new String('My String'); or similar.  However, the usefulness is
limited 
because there's no way to automatically wrap all strings within the
application.


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