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Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 09:45:04 -0500
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To: Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for a RFC
From: ben@benramsey.com (Ben Ramsey)

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> On May 6, 2019, at 09:37, Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> That being said, adding an interface like `ArraySerializable` might be =
nice too. I'm seeing technical arguments against adding magic casts, but =
(just spit-balling here), what if a class implemented a new =
`ArraySerializable` interace with whatever method it demands, and if =
that is attempted to be cast to an array either manually by calling =
"(array) $foo" or PHP attempting to, then the array serialize method is =
called. =C2=AF\_(=E3=83=84)_/=C2=AF

That=E2=80=99s how I would prefer to see it work.

BTW, I=E2=80=99m not suggesting `ArraySerializable` as the name. I used =
that to make a connection to `JsonSerializable`, which I think did a =
good job of using an interface for this kind of thing (even though =
it=E2=80=99s not quite the same because there=E2=80=99s no cast for a =
JSON type).

In some of my open source projects, I=E2=80=99ve had to add =
`__toString()` to the interfaces to ensure that implementers implement =
it. It would be nice for my interfaces to instead extend an internal =
interface like `Stringable`.

-Ben

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