Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:108364 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67885 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2020 14:18:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php-smtp4.php.net) (45.112.84.5) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 2020 14:18:07 -0000 Received: from php-smtp4.php.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588061804F8 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2020 04:30:17 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on php-smtp4.php.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-ASN: AS15169 209.85.128.0/17 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Envelope-From: Received: from mail-il1-f175.google.com (mail-il1-f175.google.com [209.85.166.175]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by php-smtp4.php.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2020 04:30:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-il1-f175.google.com with SMTP id l4so15718645ilj.1 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:30:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=MUjEZ7pMS5xmLoDTRPIIn8BVhaS24/QKBbXnUhk9NLE=; b=OK3UExKVuTwQUsRqeZGKCZsUymtXDp32XSZlWvwIhBQkO4h5r9jyrF5lY4rkSa+Bal J2yTsDkpv9pmIt5nFuaV2DwSfqE3p/42IbfAyKGyOv0anh9ASxT2Ozm0Smi/f2/cB0dF Sl538q2iLdmhIkQFLysgeBxWTY/hVMUQSXhK6H5ySxPLH1AeHM21gAd013KzJLEMr3sQ Sd3s6qcFV8PoDZwVdCgas1CLq5XYcreW/fiUEpybjwGy8SfejhJ+MTIkv/9D4DvhnfoC 80LPHR7WOE1vCgrCE5yXbYizf4Ats+fJ+31+zXZ3I47ARJ47CM8w8kKCJrxpDwaroFtZ /aUg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=MUjEZ7pMS5xmLoDTRPIIn8BVhaS24/QKBbXnUhk9NLE=; b=Z0dUMkIuGSV3W3l89ksgsrbOwonsW9+ohMcNP6rc0yEHszUFNAo83ZI17fMGJ6/zZ3 HzFBz8RqcBU9LQqZHpdanH+F8vLLLUtONaZ8AL7/fMsNyXfuisBTbRPgjzZPaE8GBVVm S++eBkqcdxe4Q8P9pzrMmgUaYmd6u/nsCtO1AgD7bCZmNsTESlhcLiSi54uO1Kc/nmdQ PSFdybZIY7n43lvh6OwUy9JKY/RwjkCrX+nL6vK0+NWBq11v15/vjMHIsbDTloje2ScB FOwkJ1WlpXUeNE2SsWmdl7IPWHuDmOoqxG2XO80TwInYDKzt1zaZ+e1nyUXZvDlGVoZk U24A== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUn95zQsyhRquCDVzjJ0Fcjg2bngHD3o2q3DTHO0S6f5bxP6xn8 f1TqP4/FDuWCRvljKcajVUNunWeyyvkfmLw853M1zc1M X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyS+N28aUtquPsi6yHQgN5hGhLftfoJROrWK/1aZjadnp29tf3i1Zxf93s2akLiVQdZIbD8eRicpWDlCfMFSTU= X-Received: by 2002:a92:d702:: with SMTP id m2mr19479893iln.149.1580819415522; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 04:30:15 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1580819110.21592.0@inventis.be> In-Reply-To: <1580819110.21592.0@inventis.be> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 12:30:04 +0000 Message-ID: To: PHP Internals Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000b76226059dbf337f" Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What about a magic __toArray() method? From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins) --000000000000b76226059dbf337f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 12:25, Tom Gerrits wrote: > "(string) $var" doesn't seem a lot less explicit to me than > "$var->toString()" > No, but it's significantly less explicit than "$var->getDebugString()" or "$var->formatHTML()" or "$var->getRawText()", all of which might exist on one class, and any of which might be chosen as the implementation for __toString() Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] --000000000000b76226059dbf337f--