Re: Proposal for a RFC

> On May 4, 2019, at 11:08, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > > 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. I find it easy to imagine that objects not implementing __toArray() would continue to exhibit that behavior. -- Paul M. Jones pmjones@pmjones.io http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php