Overhead

[John O.]

Hi! I've been using Outline for a while now. I think it's great!

Today I dumped the contents of the template object.
I found that many variables are contained in the object multiple
times.

For example:

'templatename':

$tpl->templatename
$tpl->vars->templatename
$tpl->engine->config->outline_context->templatename
$tpl->engine->config->outline_context->vars->templatename
$tpl->config->outline_context->templatename
$tpl->config->outline_context->vars->templatename

'bracket_open':

$tpl->engine:protected->config->bracket_open
$tpl->engine:protected->config->outline_context->vars:protected-
>engine:protected->config->bracket_open
$tpl->engine:protected->config->outline_context->vars:protected-
>config:protected->bracket_open
$tpl->config:protected->bracket_open
and two more times!

Every variable that I assign to the template is contained three times
in the $tpl object!

Why are the variables saved separately for config, engine and at the
root level of the object?
Why carry around this excess overhead?

[mindplay.dk]

I'm pretty sure those are stored as references - so you're not
carrying any additional overhead, they are just multiple references to
the configuration to enable it to be accessed locally from whatever
classes need access to it.

[John O.]

Ah, okay. Good to know. Thank you for your quick reply.