How do you print out an object?

[dwh]

Been going through the new vb code. It looks like it was all switched to OOP? Is that right?

BTW, I hate OOP (never could understand it).

Not really sure why after all this time vb had to switch. Was there a good reason?

Anyway, I'm not going to switch to another bbs even though this is quite upsetting, but now I have to learn a whole bunch of new stuff.

When replying to a post, I tried to understand what the heck is going on. Where the variables are. One include calls another calls another which defines another include file in a variable which then calls back the file that called it (!!) and when you track all that down, nothing makes sense anymore.

Upshot, I figure the data is in a variable called $dataman. So I try to echo it to find out what's going on. And it says $dataman is an object. Damn. Well, how do you echo an object?

Every version of vb gets more and more complicated and I'm wondering if this will eventually turn into too much bloat. I hope you guys are thinking about this. And it would be nice if you asked for some feedback before making a change like moving to OOP. You don't have to, but it would be appreciated and maybe help the product in the end?

This may sound like a ranting complaint, but it's not meant that way. Just trying to give you feedback.