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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:12:08 +0100
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Adding a "Stringable" interface to PHP 8
From: nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com (Nicolas Grekas)

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> Just so someone has mentioned it... is "Stringable" really the best name
> for this interface? Reddit really didn't like it ;) Some possible
> alternatives: ToString, HasToString, CastsToString.
>

Naming things...
I'm not sure reddit is the way to lobby php-internals...
I proposed Stringable because it is the most consistent to me:
Traversable, Serializable, Countable, Throwable, JsonSerializable
all are related to some special engine behavior, which this ones also is.
I'm on the side of keeping Stringable.



> Something to keep in mind is that there has been a recent proposal for
> "Arrayable" as well, and that had very different semantics (not about
> __toArray() at all)
>

I didn't take part on this discussion, but I'm totally on Marco's side on
this one, I really hope this will NOT make it into the engine, for the
reasons he gives... :)

Nicolas

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