stratification = stringification
(damn spellchecker)
On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 09:30, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> Perl has this (it's called "stratification"), and it is quite useful.
> One example is that you have an error object that contains various
> properties (line location, error class, error level, error code, etc).
> And on evaluating the object as a string, it dumps it as an easy to read
> error message.
>
> -Jason
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 08:52, Brad LaFountain wrote:
> > I want to throw together a quick hack so that objects can implement a
> > __as_string() method that will get called when the string is used in a string
> > contex. Instead of append "Object".
> >
> > $s = (string)$object;
> > or
> > $s .= $object;
> >
> > also the same things with arrays that will do something similar to
> > $s = implode(" ", $array);
> >
> > $s = (string)$array;
> > $s = $array . "\n";
> >
> > Before anyone jumps on this and says no way cause it easy to implemnt your own
> > __to_string() and call it when you want it or what is wrong with implode(" ",
> > $array). Think of exactly how usefull is appending the word "Array" or
> > "Object".
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > - brad
> >
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