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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Concept] Magic Casting
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

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Hi,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Alex Bowers <bowersbros@gmail.com> wrote:

> And because the email formatting appears bad (at least in externals.io)
>
> Here it is in a gist:
> https://gist.github.com/alexbowers/9520c8df746249ecae2d9c7aad2e54ae
>

There's been a few times I've wanted something like that, but I don't
really like the idea of yet another magic method.
Especially given the obvious limitation of just one parameter being
accepted, the whole thing may work with just an interface:

    interface Castable {
        public function __construct($whatever);
    }

Cheers,
Andrey.

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