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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object Casting - An Alternative to Type Hinting
From: keisial@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C1ngel_Gonz=E1lez?=)

On 26/02/12 15:57, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
> I've gone back and re-read a bunch of the old posts on Type Hinting,
> and have come to the conclusion that it won't be done any time soon.
> Not because it doesn't have merit, but because there are at least a
> few fundamental difficulties that are non-trivial to figure out while
> still keeping the usefulness.
Can you provide a list?

Having clear objectives of what we are intending to fix will help to find
a good solution.
I suspect that the __cast solution is more complex than needed. And
specifically, I forsee having both __castTo() and __castFrom() as a source
of conflicts.