Re: What about a magic __toArray() method?

Hey Tom, On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 1:55 PM Tom Gerrits <tom@inventis.be> wrote: > "(string) $var" doesn't seem a lot less explicit to me than > "$var->toString()", but if it is coerced automatically when being > passed to e.g. a function taking a string, that is of course a > different story. > (string) $var is less explicit because (string) is an operation that applies to a wide set of types, whereas any -> applies only to object types, and also has a specific name (the method name) on its right. Restricting that operation to fewer supported types is not feasible at this point, since (string) null is very much relied upon. Coercions and implicit casting using the overloaded operators could > perhaps also be limited to non-strict mode, if desired, which is also > the case for scalar types currently, IIRC. > Is there any newly written code that doesn't use non-strict mode at all? Programming without declare(strict_types=1) seems anachronistic at this point. Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/