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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Safe Casting Functions
From: lars@strojny.net (Lars Strojny)

Hi Derick,

> On 21 Oct 2014, at 17:26, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> But what about if we also would like a to_bool, which would accept=20
> "true", "false", "0", "1", true, false, 1 and 0?

Yep, I think that totally makes sense. "yes" and "no" would be further =
candidates but that=E2=80=99s probably already too much.

cu,
Lars=