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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:53:24 +0200
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To: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Burnichon?= <bburnichon@gmail.com>, 
	Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>, "internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add __toArray() method to objects that would be called
 on cast to array
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:
> Correct: passing an object that implements `__toArray()` to an API that
> uses an `(array)` cast internally will break or misbehave, if this feature
> is added to the language.
>

I'm not particularly interested in the idea anyway, but if you change
code and *then* something changes - that's not a BC break.

Also, I have to agree with Fleshgrinder on that we don't need more
magic methods and using an interface would be much cleaner.

Cheers,
Andrey.