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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:48:51 -0400
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To: Stan Vass <sv_forums@fmethod.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inline typecasting / typehinting for classes and interfaces
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

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Stan,

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Stan Vass <sv_forums@fmethod.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>>
>>  I agree with you. The one case where this syntax may be very useful is if
>>> we want to implement class casting. So introduce a pair of magic methods
>>>
>>
>> I do not think we want to implement class casting. I'm not sure how
>> class casting even makes sense - if the object is of one class, how can
>> you just make it into another class by casting? If you mean "casting"
>> actually returns another object of different class, then just make a
>> method for that that returns that object, I do not see how obscuring the
>> purpose of this operation with unobvious syntax would help.
>>
>
> The discussion is starting to drift very far from my original proposal.
>
> Instead of trying to guess what I mean, can't people just refer to my very
> simple definitive proposed behavior?
>

My point was that what I posted was the only way that I can see for the
original proposal to be useful.

Anthony

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