Re: Re: Proposal for a RFC

Hi Steven, On Mon, 13 May 2019, 15:46 Steven Wade, <stevenwadejr@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 4, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > I would personally love this feature and those I've run it by were also > excited by the idea. So I'm soliciting feedback in hopes that things go > well and I can officially write the RFC. As for implementation, Sara > Golemon is awesome and while chatting a few months back, knocked out a > proof-of-concept implementation < > > https://github.com/sgolemon/php-src/tree/experimental.toarray>. > There's > still work to be done if this proposal gets to the RFC phase, but again, > just gauging interest here. > > > > I appreciate any feedback you all can provide. > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Steven Wade > > Hi all, I wanted to re-ping the list to see if there is any more feedback > on this proposal? Any technical concerns or true BC changes? > > This feature wouldn't be as exciting as the others in 7.4, but I think > it'd be a nice little helper, and the community feedback I've received from > developers has been positive, so I'd like to keep the conversation going. > I don't think any of the discussion points mentioned above is resolved: a heavy BC break on the (array) cast instead of introducing a clear SomeArrayableInterfaceType#toArray() (to be explicitly called) is a no-go from my end, as no clear value is added besides more language complexity, and more mixed cast is encouraged. Greets, Marco >