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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Union type casts
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 5 October 2022 14:42:57 BST, juan carlos morales <dev=2Ejuan=2Emorales@g=
mail=2Ecom> wrote:
>Are you facing a situation where manual union type cast is needed?

I can't think of any examples for full union types off the top of my head,=
 but nullable casts would frequently be useful, e=2Eg=2E when you have a va=
lue that is either a numeric string or null, and you want an integer, but f=
or null to stay null, not become zero=2E

There's also a slightly different case, where you want values which aren't=
 numeric to also become null=2E As I commented on another thread, this is a=
 space I've been thinking about recently, and it gets complicated quickly=
=2E

Regards,


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Rowan Tommins
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