Re: String enums & __toString()

On 17 August 2024 21:27:59 BST, John Coggeshall <john@coggeshall.org> wrote: > >I don't think it's without purpose... what it should be for is to allow developers to >make flexible APIs where they can type-hint string|Stringable and the user of the API doesn't >have to worry about it. My view is that the user *should* have to think about it - if what the API needs is a string, tell me that, and I'll pick a method that returns a relevant string. I also think it's weird that Stringable is a magic implicit interface. If it makes sense at all, surely it should be a pseudo-type like callable, and also accept int and float values, since they can be cast to string too. But maybe I shouldn't have said anything, because I've had this conversation before and it generally just leads to agreeing to disagree. Plenty of people seem to think __toString and Stringable are a good idea, so I guess I'll just leave y'all to it. Regards, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]