Re: [Discussion] is_string(), string type andobjectsimplementing __toString()
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:44:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [Discussion] is_string(), string type andobjectsimplementing __toString() | ||
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Fleshgrinder wrote:
On 3/8/2017 7:36 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:It means the object can be converted to a string. But such a conversion may entail a loss of information and not be equivalent to the object itself. It might be a “human-readable” form, for instance. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/Hi, Andrey Andreev wrote:What is it then in your book?The question is rather "is this value a string?", only with the added assumption that __toString() objects are treated as "string objects" and thus fulfill the condition (another reason why I went for an is_string() parameter).This is a faulty assumption. The presence of __toString() doesn't mean the object is a string, or intended to be used like one.