Re: property de-referencing

From: Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:12:15 +0000
Subject: Re: property de-referencing
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Hi!

> In C#, they had the intention to introduce the operator infoof(...) to
> get the reflection, not only of properties, but of virtually everything
> in the language. They abandoned the idea because it is really hard to do
> that for overloaded functions and they did not want to do all that work
> for a half baked feature:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/05/21/in-foof-we-trust-a-dialogue.aspx
> 
> However, PHP does not have overloaded functions, which makes things
> significantly easier, so maybe it is worth examining the idea.

PHP has functions that can be result of __call or arbitrary code that
implements fcall handler in an extension. What would be returned then?
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