2015-02-01 1:52 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com>: > Hi! > >> The reason for creating circular references, usually due to the need to >> bind objects. >> >> But this relationship can often be obtained from the context of the call. > > If the API behaves differently depending on who is calling it, or > requires some information from the caller, it should be passed > explicitly - as a parameter/method call/etc. - not hidden. Otherwise it > would lead to nasty surprises when the user of the API assumes caller > does not matter but the implementor assumes it does. > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalys...@gmail.com
This is a controversial statement. If the caller explicitly send the object as an argument, it worsens loose depending API. And agreed this code looks weird and not well thought-out: <?php $holder->object->call($holder); ?> Opportunity to shoot yourself in the foot, will always, developers node.js it know. I know that this code can be arranged differently, but then you have to make it more difficult and not nice. But if have an easy way to get a pointer to the owner, in practice, is very convenient. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
