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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:15:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object Type Casting Reloaded
From: michal@brzuchalski.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Brzuchalski?=)

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wt., 23 kwi 2019 o 11:17 Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> napisa=C5=82(a=
):

> ...
> Without commenting on the rest of the proposal: It's not possible to use
> (ClassName) as a cast syntax, because it is ambiguous. For example (Foo)
> [$x] is already valid syntax (fetch constant Foo and take index $x), or
> (Foo) +$bar, etc.
>

Wouldn't that be possible to differentiate consts with class names if we
merge symbol tables and allow only one symbol with the same name?

I know this is huge BC break but AFAIK in the past, there was a discussion
about merging symbol tables.

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