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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:22:23 +0200
To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Cc: Raymond Irving <xwisdom@gmail.com>, PHP Internals
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object Type Casting
From: hello@apfelbox.net (Jannik Zschiesche)

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Hi, =20

I guess it would work like an inline type-hint.

Something along the lines of:

=24circle =3D Shape=46actory::createShape('circle');
if (=21=24circle instanceof Circle)
=7B
  throw =E2=80=A6;
=7D


I would like something like this, since it saves quite some code.


Cheers
Jannik


Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 um 19:19 schrieb Stas Malyshev:

> Hi=21
> =20
> > Are there any plans to add object type casting support in PHP=3F
> > =20
> > =46or example:
> > =24circle =3D (Circle) Shape=46actory::createShape('circle');
> > =24circle->radius =3D 10;
> > echo =24circle->getArea();
> > =20
> =20
> =20
> What is this supposed to do=3F I.e. what createShape returns and what
> (Circle) operator is doing to it=3F
> =20
> > It would be great if this feature could be added to 5.5 :)
> =20
> 5.5 is in feature freeze, so it won't happen in any case.
> =20
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