Re: Treats raw types if used as object

On 09/08/2016 14:49, David Rodrigues wrote:

In this case, I suggests to have some handler to treat raw types as objects in an indirect way. Objects are not created, but it methods are called on demand statically. For instance: // It should be declared by PHP internally (default handler). register_type_handler('string', \SplString::class); // It is an user defined handler, should extends SplInteger. register_type_handler('int', \Types\MyInt::class);

Hi David, You and your friend are not alone in thinking this would be a nice feature to have, and the good news is that a few people have already worked on proof-of-concept implementations. Most notably, there's https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects which has a "register_primitive_type_handler" function almost identical to your example. A few people have taken that and played around with what a good set of methods to implement would be, e.g. https://github.com/rossriley/php-scalar-objects and https://github.com/RikudouSage/scalar-objects Right now, there's no concrete plan for if/how/when this might end up a proper part of the language, though. It might be a good idea to search one of the archives of this list to see where previous discussions ended up. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]