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Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 09:46:36 -0400
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Subject: Re: Proposal for a RFC
From: stevenwadejr@gmail.com (Steven Wade)

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> On May 4, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Steven Wade <stevenwadejr@gmail.com> =
wrote:
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> Hi Internals team!
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I appreciate any feedback you all can provide.
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> Thanks,
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> - Steven Wade

Hi all, I wanted to re-ping the list to see if there is any more =
feedback on this proposal? Any technical concerns or true BC changes?

This feature wouldn't be as exciting as the others in 7.4, but I think =
it'd be a nice little helper, and the community feedback I've received =
from developers has been positive, so I'd like to keep the conversation =
going.

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Steven Wade
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