Re: Proposal for a RFC

Hi Den lør. 4. maj 2019 kl. 17.58 skrev Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com>: > > Hi Internals team! > > I have an idea for a feature that I'd love to see in the language one day and wanted to > run the idea by you all. > > The idea is to add a new magic method "__toArray()" that would allow a developer to > specifiy how a class is cast to an array. The idea is the same mentality of __toString(), but, for > arrays. While this sounds great and all, I do wonder about the implications it may have on the already existing behavior of type casting an object into an array which returns current public/protected/private property values. While this functionality is not an ideal or by design, it is fairly heavily (ab-)used, meaning that it is a potential BC break without the ability to an alternative. See this example: https://3v4l.org/ONMoi -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen kalle@php.net