Re: [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8
| From: | Michał Brzuchalski | Date: | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:11:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8 | ||
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wt., 11 lut 2020 o 13:59 Guilliam Xavier <guilliam.xavier@gmail.com>
napisał(a):
> 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")
>
>
Maybe StringObject? We do already have ArrayObject.
BR,
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Michał Brzuchalski