Re: [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8
| From: | Guilliam Xavier | Date: | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:58:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8 | ||
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 1:12 PM Nicolas Grekas
<nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Just so someone has mentioned it... is "Stringable" really the best name
> > for this interface? Reddit really didn't like it ;) Some possible
> > alternatives: ToString, HasToString, CastsToString.
> >
>
> Naming things...
> I'm not sure reddit is the way to lobby php-internals...
> I proposed Stringable because it is the most consistent to me:
> Traversable, Serializable, Countable, Throwable, JsonSerializable
> all are related to some special engine behavior, which this ones also is.
But one could argue that "string" is not a verb like "traverse",
"serialize", "count", "throw" etc.
Potential alternatives would be Stringifyable (or Stringifiable?),
StringCastable, StringConvertible...
(Even though I personally have no problem with "Stringable")
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Guilliam Xavier