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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Discussion] is_string(), string type and objects
 implementing __toString()
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 08/03/2017 22:24, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> This is why I was concerned about the discussion becoming too broad -
> it brings us (or me anyway) back to square 1, if not even out of
> bounds.

Sorry :(


> I do agree that we can't have pseudo-types for everything, but can we
> at least have meaningful ones?

Sure, but you need to justify why your particular choice of pseudo-type 
is more meaningful than any of the other combinations.

I still don't understand what you're using this check for that means you 
want to exclude integers. If you're passing on the value to anything 
that actually needs a string, you're doing a string cast, either 
explicitly or implicitly, so there's no difference between me passing 
you (string)'42', (int)42, or new class { function __toString() { return 
'42'; } }

My best guess was that you wanted to do something *different* if it was 
an integer, but as I showed in my last example that doesn't actually 
need you to exclude them from the new function.

Regards,

-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]