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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:17:10 -0400
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To: Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting
From: seva.lapsha@gmail.com (Seva Lapsha)

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Please read my previous comment.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com> wrote:

>  How would one use your Castable interface to cast a Class =93Test=94 to =
any
> of integer, array or boolean?****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Seva Lapsha [mailto:seva.lapsha@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 14, 2012 12:19 PM
>
> *To:* Clint Priest
> *Cc:* internals@lists.php.net
> *Subject:* Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting****
>
> ** **
>
> My pastbin is for casting anything to anything.****
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Both of the RFC's you reference are for casting TO a scalar, not TO an
> object type. Your pastbin is for casting FROM a scalar TO an object.****
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seva Lapsha [mailto:seva.lapsha@gmail.com]****
>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:18 AM
> To: Clint Priest
> Cc: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting
>
> Sorry, I comprehend neither the cause nor the effect in your argument
> statement. Can you please elaborate?
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Clint Priest <cpriest@zerocue.com> wrote=
:
>
> > This has already been covered quite a bit, the problem with your
> > suggestion is that the compiler needs to determine the type it is cast
> > to, which is why the __toInt(), __toArray(), etc, so that the language
> > can request the type it needs to cast to.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Seva Lapsha [mailto:seva.lapsha@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:56 PM
> > > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting
> > >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Please be kind to review and comment my proposal for custom casting
> > > in
> > PHP (or let me know if a similar proposal was already
> > > discussed).
> > >
> > > http://pastebin.com/sPb0i8U6
> > >
> > > IMHO, it's more simple and on the other hand more flexible than
> > > proposed
> > in:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class_casting_to_scalar
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance,
> > > Seva Lapsha
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I think my RFC confused people on this list due to improper
> > > > descriptions and too much information. Sorry for the confusion. I
> > > > revised the RFC so that most important points can be understood at
> > > > a
> > glance.
> > > >
> > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nophptags
> > > >
> > > > Please read again if you've read already and give comments.
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Yasuo Ohgaki
> > > > yohgaki@ohgaki.net
> > > >
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