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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Userspace operator overloading
From: jakob@givoni.dk (Jakob Givoni)

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 6:28 AM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the RFC is not sufficiently specific enough
> regarding the concatenation of instances of classes which implement
> __toString().

Exactly what I was thinking too. Would be nice with some examples on this.

> So if we ever wanted to change the value of
> PHP_OPERAND_TYPES_NOT_SUPPORTED, we'd introduce a BC break.  Therefore
> the constant's value likely will never change, so using NULL directly to
> signal unsupported operand types would be fine, wouldn't it?

Agree on this too.