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{ 2004 05 26 }

actually magic functionality is usually a bad thing

From http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php:

PHP reserves all function names starting with __ as magical. It is recommended that you do not use function names with __ in PHP unless you want some documented magic functionality.

This sort of thing reminds me of why I’m fond of programming: it is the closest people have come yet to genuine wizardry.

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Posted by coriolinus on Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 2023, and filed under Uncategorized. Automatic tags: Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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