Re: [CONCEPT][DISCUSSION] Instance as boolean

Hi, > > Hey Marcio, > >> >> Hi >> >> > >> > Re casting - In the previous thread the following concern was presented and I don’t >> > know enough about that area to respond effectively: "I'd endorse avoiding >> > object-to-<scalar> casts via cast operations: they are a good source of bugs. My rationale for >> > the discouragement of magic cast methods is explained with some code examples at >> > https://github.com/ShittySoft/symfony-live-berlin-2018-doctrine-tutorial/pull/3#issuecomment-460441229” >> > >> >> Frankly this is something subject to personal opinions and will change >> over time according to community shifts. >> > > Not sure what's "subject to personal opinions" in the objective bug exposed in > the snippet above? > So there is a bug in a contrived code snippet therefore casting is a universal bad practice? It's at least a huge stretch. Some might say your bad practice was actually using null ;) > Greets, > > Marco Pivetta > > http://twitter.com/Ocramius > > http://ocramius.github.com/