Re: [RFC] Safe Casting Functions
| From: | Anatol Belski | Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:04:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Safe Casting Functions | ||
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On Wed, November 19, 2014 19:47, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>> __toString() always errors if it doesn’t return a string, I see no
>>> reason to change that.
>> But in the other cases it converts strings to numbers. I mean like
>> class A {function __toString(){return '10';}} $a = (string) (new A);
>> //numeric literal
>>
>
> ?
>
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> I see no numbers?
>
Yeah, try_string(new A) == (string)(new A), but try_int(new A) !=
(int)(string)(new A) in the RFC. Whereby '10' were pretty valid for int,
no?
Regards
Anatol