"Krinkle" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r72948.
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/72948#c26876

Commit summary for MediaWiki.r72948:

fix groomedBannerList bug, add in more support for geotargetting, remove 
obsolete css definitions

Krinkle's comment:

Why <code><nowiki>(object)array();</nowiki></code> ?

Associative arrays in PHP are what are objects in JavaScript (json_encode maps 
it). Actual PHP objects don't have a JSON equivalent afaik, when forced to 
become JSON, PHP probably converts it to an array with only the public 
variables, thus losing the other Object data (such as class name, parent, 
private properties, any methods etc).

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