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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] WIKI Account Request
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Mike Willbanks <pencap@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Internals,
>
> I had requested a wiki account (mwillbanks) as I would like to propose an
> RFC on Object casts to scalar types.  This has previously been discussed
> prior to scalar type hints and since we have those now coming into PHP 7,=
 I
> believe it would be a great time to take a look at this for 7.1 (Discussi=
on
> will not be immediate as focus needs to be put into 7.0)
>
> The last RFC had gone inactive back from 2012:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types and I have talked with
> ircmaxell about doing something similar but making it more inline with ST=
H
> as well as supporting a generalized __cast.
>
> The general cruft of it is to have objects have the ability to support:
> + __toInt
> + __toFloat
> + __toBool
> + __toArray
> + __cast
>
> Removing the existing having __toScalar as it would no longer make sense =
in
> this context.  __cast would be utilized more or less as function((int)
> constant_type) where as it may mean PHP_TYPE_* as initial feedback on the
> idea showed that it would be the most generalist approach and might be
> useful in that context.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>

Hi,

I can't find your account request, are you sure you was able to submit it?
The form won't be submitted if you fill out the ' To which email address do
you have to send an email now?' question wrong.
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Ferenc Kov=C3=A1cs
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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