Re: [RFC - discussion] __toArray()

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 2:03 PM Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’d like to officially open my __toArray() RFC < > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/to-array> up to discussion. I’ve > delayed > changing the status until I had more time to respond to the discussion, but > since it’s been brought up again > <https://externals.io/message/108351>, I > figured now is the best time. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/to-array > <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/to-array> One of the things that stand out to me in this RFC is that once you set strict_types=1 (which surely we all do :P), not a lot is left of it. While there are quite a few places where objects can be implicitly converted to strings (say echo, concatenation, etc), there are not a lot of places where objects can be implicitly converted to array. A quick grep has around 500 string conversions in the codebase, and 20 array conversions. Nikita