Re: [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:11 PM Michał Brzuchalski <michal.brzuchalski@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. But ArrayObject is not a interface (ArrayAccess is). -- Guilliam Xavier