Re: [PHP-DEV] Forbid binding methods to incompatible $this

[Nikita Popov]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote:

> Great it's not used anymore [image: &#X1f60a]
>
> I personally agree to remove this.
>
>
> Nikita, can you also investigate the need for double pointer to object in
>
>
> typedef union _zend_function *(*zend_object_get_method_t)(zend_object
> **object, zend_string *method, const zval *key);
>
>
> As I remember, it's necessary only for some SPL hack, and looks like a
> terrible design decision.
>
This is used for forwarding method calls to the the "inner" object in SPL
iterators. It's basically the internal equivalent of doing:

function __call($method, $args) {
    return $this->inner->$method(...$args);
}

I don't think we can drop this feature at this point (deprecate?). We can
of course change the implementation to use a trampoline function to avoid
the zend_object** hack, but I'm not sure that would be worthwhile.

Nikita