RE: [PHP-DEV] [POC - Patch] Scalar Type Hinting - A-La zend_parse_parameters

> > (Now, it would be nice to have another RFC about custom object casting > > to int, float and bool...) > > You mean like https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types > which is still in draft? > > Note that __toBool would be problematic, since it would be called if the object was used in an > if statement, which could yield some very strange results if it returned false (it would break the > existing semantics about how we can use if statements to determine if the type is populated)... > > Anthony And yet, __toBool probably sits right next to __toArray in terms of the level of usefulness (maybe even beats it.) isset() can always be used to determine whether something was ACTUALLY set to a non-null value, and to some extent there is already a semantic problem anyway since things like if("0") resolve to false. John Crenshaw Priacta, Inc.