Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:51, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the ability to cast to an object at all is pretty wacky, since PHP has no standard base > class for objects, nor any mechanism to cast to or from specific classes, etc. Somewhat off-topic, but maybe we should make StdClass be the actual base class? I mean, it’s already used as a generic object, and you could then put StdClass as a type hint if you’re using an object as a key/value store but want to allow sophisticated objects to be passed. Also, we don’t have a mechanism to cast between classes mostly because we don’t need it; if Bar extends Foo and a function takes a Foo, it can also take a Bar. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/