Re: String enums & __toString()

On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM John Coggeshall <john@coggeshall.org> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I poked around a bit in the Enum RFCs and I could find (maybe I missed) what's up with > this: > > enum Foo:string implements \Stringable > { > case FOO = 'bar'; > > public function __toString() { > return $this->value; > } > } > > PHP Fatal error: Enum Foo cannot include magic method __toString > > It seems to me that when the enum is a string it is entirely reasonable to expect __toString() > to work here and support the \Stringable interface.. > > Is there a reason I'm missing as to why this is problematic in the engine that's been > documented somewhere, or is this an oversight we can look at correcting? > > John As others have said, there are definite objections to auto-implementing string conversions. I think that opt-in string conversions are sufficiently different that you would have a shot at an RFC passing. No guarantees about that, of course!