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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 19:47:14 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion][RFC Idea] Cast Variables by Reference
To: joseph+php@josephleedy.dev
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From: drealecs@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Alexandru_P=C4=83tr=C4=83nescu?=)

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 7:25=E2=80=AFPM Joseph Leedy <joseph+php@josephleedy=
.dev>
wrote:

>
> As a developer, I would like to have variables of one type cast to anothe=
r
> type automatically so that I do not need to assign the variable to itself=
.
>
>
> What if we could do this instead?
>
> ```php
> $price =3D '5.0123';
> ...
> (float) $price;
>
> var_dump($price); // Result: `float: 5.0123`
> ```
>
>
This is valid code now, and does not perform the cast.
You need to use a slightly different syntax, maybe `(float)&$price;` that
is an error now.

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Alex

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail=
_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 7, 2025=
 at 7:25=E2=80=AFPM Joseph Leedy &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:joseph%2Bphp@josephl=
eedy.dev">joseph+php@josephleedy.dev</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid=
 rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
As a developer, I would like to have variables of one type cast to another =
<br>
type automatically so that I do not need to assign the variable to itself.<=
br>
<br><br>
What if we could do this instead?<br>
<br>
```php<br>
$price =3D &#39;5.0123&#39;;<br>
...<br>
(float) $price;<br>
<br>
var_dump($price); // Result: `float: 5.0123`<br>
```<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is valid code now, and doe=
s not perform the cast.</div><div>You need to use a slightly different synt=
ax, maybe `(float)&amp;$price;` that is an error now.</div><div><br></div><=
div>--=C2=A0</div><div>Alex</div></div></div>

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