hidden destructors.
#
# If we set the error level to E_ERROR what we must to to be correct and an
# object needs to be automatically destructed in shutdown process then the
# exit would cause memory corruption and a SEGV.
# The default behaviour is to copy all properties with all current values
# from the old object. But if __clone is overwritten then only the default
# properties are cloned with their correct default values. So we keep
# the type system intact and also allow real __clone overwriting now.
# This is somewhat discussable. I copied all properties from the old to the
# new object. But for type correctness we only need to copy the properties
# declared in the class and its parents.
#
# Also someone might want to take care about static and const members.
- $that as discussed at the PHP Conference. If there are any objections
- alternative names please let me know. The reason for changing it from
- $clone is because $clone sounds as if it's the newly cloned object and
- not the old one.
This should work as follows: if class hasn't member with given name,
__get/__set is called. If class has no method with given name, __call is called.
__get/__set are not recursive, __call can be.
Note: only standard Zend objects are working now. This is definitely going to
break custom objects like COM, Java, etc. - this will be fixed later.
Also, this may break other things that access objects' internals directly.
- freeing objects from id 0 instead of id 1. id 0 is not used.
- Change isset/empty opcodes to support static members and the new way of
- doing $this->foobar. Also the opcodes operate now on the hash table
- combined with the variable names so that they can be overloaded by the
- soon to be added overloading patch.
- destructor could be run after its class was already dead. Right now
- object destructors is the first thing whic happens during shutdown in
- order to prevent this problem. It's very likely that destructors will
- cause more grief and we'll have to outline exactly when you should use
- them and what kind of logic you're allowed to do inside of them.
- This bug was reported by sebastian.
- will actually work well in the context of PHP so we should consider this
- as experimental. Possible problems might be that when the constructor is
- run PHP might not be in a stable state.
