Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52583&edit=1
ID: 52583
Updated by: cmb@php.net
Reported by: martin dot leucht at gmail dot com
Summary: Improved casting and hinting, new magic method
__cast()
-Status: Open
+Status: Suspended
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Class/Object related
Operating System: Irrelevant
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
This feature would need discussion for which this bug tracker is
not suitable. If anybody is still interested in this, please
forward the request to the internals mailing list[1]. For the
time being, I'm suspending this ticket.
[1] <https://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php#internals>
Previous Comments:
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[2013-09-02 12:22:04] thomas dot sahlin at invented dot se
I think solution 2 would be better since that would also allow caching objects:
public static function __cast($id)
{
if (!isset(self::$cache[$id]))
self::$cache[$id] = new self($id);
return self::$cache[$id];
}
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[2013-05-03 19:16:50] mkutschker-php at yahoo dot com
If we have both casting (the other one being #46128) then perhaps the names should be __castFrom()
and castTo(). Or perhaps even __castFromInt() and castToInt() and so on.
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[2012-09-05 02:53:14] aharvey@php.net
Not a dupe: request #46128 covers casting the other way. (That alone is probably a good argument for
changing the proposed magic method name.)
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[2012-09-04 14:20:42] qfox at ya dot ru
dup?: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46128&thanks=6
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[2010-10-19 11:41:50] rayro at gmx dot de
pretty nice, awesome feature!
but i have some recommendations on this:
1) is it true that i cannot cast to a boolean false? what about throwing the error if no return was
made? the user is able to throw some exception or will simple not return anything to use the default
error mechanism...
2) i think there should be 2 additional types of functions covering your 2 solutions by simply
change the name. for your case 1 this should be __cast, whereas 2 could be __hint? the essential
difference is that __hint will be called in the functions arguments and __cast will be called
elsewhere?
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