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Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 08:19:44 -0400
Cc: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>,
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To: Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.grekas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for a RFC
From: stevenwadejr@gmail.com (Steven Wade)

> I want to weight in with what Marco expressed. I have the very same =
concerns and they are major ones for many use cases. Mine is VarDumper.
>=20
> Please don't do this the way it is described.


Is there a way that you'd suggest? First of all, TIL some cool things =
about "(array) $foo" and how VarDumper uses that, so thank you! =
Secondly, I believe the casting syntax is the best user experience and =
would be a good addition to the language, so is there any other way at =
all to maintain something like VarDumper's functionality without using =
the casting syntax? I'd like to find a way to not distrupt too much of =
what's out there, while also adding value to the end user.

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Steven Wade
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