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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Type Casting User Classes
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Chris London wrote (on 15/11/2013):
> To me, since PHP already has implemented type
> casting to (int), (string), (bool), etc. the value in type casting is
> already there. I just want to take it to the next level.

Actually, PHP has so far avoided *user-defined* casts to anything other 
than string. Extensions can implement objects with magic cast semantics 
for other types, but only __toString() can be implemented in user-space, 
and proposals for more general casting mechanisms seem to have met with 
resistance.

Whether or not that's a discussion people are willing to re-visit, I 
have no idea.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]