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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:44:29 -0300
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To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object Type Casting Reloaded
From: marcospassos.com@gmail.com (Marcos Passos)

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Such a feature would be very helpful to ensure type safety! A big +1!

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 19:51 Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Azjezz, thanks for jumping in!
>
> > I have been using HackLang for quite a while now and i believe they have
> a better solution for this, and it would awesome to see it in PHP, the `as`
> operator.
>
> If I understand correctly, `as` is an operator that performs type checks
> but never casts like () does.
> This looks like a serious candidate for an alternative syntax to the one I
> proposed!
>
> - Ben
>

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