Re: [PHP-DEV] Tie'ing variables

George Schlossnagle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Having this sort of functionaility in general would be great.  I know 
> you can affect this with objects via overload, but it is useful for 
> scalars and arrays and streams as well.  It is pretty 'magical' though.

Then how about allowing access to object properties via square brackets 
like ECMA-Script? Though this will definitely add much more complexity to 
the Engine...

Moriyoshi

> George
> 
> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 11:26  AM, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if it might be possible to "tie" these arrays to a
> > function (if you don't understand that, look at Perl for a definition).
> > One could populate them as an overloaded object, and then array 
> > accesses
> > would work - I guess.  But I would prefer a cleaner mechanism.