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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Objects as Keys
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Explicit conversion is trivial, just call whatever method you like.
> Sure, you can't write (int)$obj, but $obj->toInt() is just as
> expressive.

Exactly the same applies to __toString and whole ArrayAccess, yet we
still have them. Avoiding boilerplate code helps. Especially if
boilterplate code would look like:

if(is_object($foo)) {
  $foo_key = $foo->toInt();
} else {
 $foo_key = $foo;
}
$a[$foo] = 1;

Doing it each time is annoying.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com