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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: A way for classes to define a response to any
 primitive type cast
From: someniatko@gmail.com (someniatko)

> This would seem to fit your use case with Shoop quite well:
> rather than Shoop::array($array)->first()->unfold(), you would just call
> $array->first(). It's fairly high on a lot of people's wish lists, but
> there's a lot of details to get right in both design and implementation,
> so I strongly recommend searching for previous discussions and proofs of
> concept before diving in.

We don't need methods on non-scalar objects, if we have [pipe
operator](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v2): sth like `$array
|> array_first(?)`. This would allow much greater flexibility.