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Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 09:58:41 -0500
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Subject: Proposal for a RFC
From: stevenwadejr@gmail.com (Steven Wade)

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Hi Internals team!

I have an idea for a feature that I'd love to see in the language one =
day and wanted to run the idea by you all.=20

The idea is to add a new magic method "__toArray()" that would allow a =
developer to specifiy how a class is cast to an array. The idea is the =
same mentality of __toString(), but, for arrays.

I would personally love this feature and those I've run it by were also =
excited by the idea. So I'm soliciting feedback in hopes that things go =
well and I can officially write the RFC. As for implementation, Sara =
Golemon is awesome and while chatting a few months back, knocked out a =
proof-of-concept implementation =
<https://github.com/sgolemon/php-src/tree/experimental.toarray>.  =
There's still work to be done if this proposal gets to the RFC phase, =
but again, just gauging interest here.

I appreciate any feedback you all can provide.

Thanks,

- Steven Wade=

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