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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:29:21 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add __toArray() method to objects that would be called
 on cast to array
From: bburnichon@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Burnichon?=)

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>
> > Same restrictions could be applied to this magic method:
> >
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php#language.oop5.magic.tostring
> >
> > By this, I mean, no exceptions should be thrown in this method and return
> > value MUST be an array.
>
> Exceptions cannot be thrown from inside __toString() because that's
> hard to implement; it's not a "feature" that anybody wanted.
>

That is why I said 'could be applied'. I don't currently know whether this
will be hard to implement. Maybe these restrictions are unneeded but I
prefer to be stricter than necessary as it generally make it easier to
implement. But thanks for the clarification.

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