Quote Originally Posted by lastcraft
How closely do you want to stick to the spec?
We don't have to stick to the spec, but I don't see anything horrible about it.

Two questions:

What is wrong with a user object? To me something like:

PHP Code:
if ($user->hasPermission('edit', 'article')) {

} 
is self-documenting. A User is a real world entity that has roles and permissions, etc... It is almost directly codifying the question that we want to ask: "Does this user have permission to do this operation on this object?"

Secondly, what is wrong with unique identifiers?

Thanks,

JT