Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:98559 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99579 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2017 00:01:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Mar 2017 00:01:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ocramius@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ocramius@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.216.169 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ocramius@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.216.169 mail-qt0-f169.google.com Received: from [209.85.216.169] ([209.85.216.169:34837] helo=mail-qt0-f169.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 8B/E6-38004-5D5D9C85 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:01:25 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-f169.google.com with SMTP id x35so25717529qtc.2 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:01:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=2TEI2w/Kq7guFvbl2b7pWBzOaUTRXrGghPpTM5tdJ4g=; b=Tre5x7VH+IltBosUl+zBTD0qyGZHpJsZDYHkP16re5BpUeFyQzy+RA4az1/GCn2bnn lM+zhPjSIAk+WdHWdw01dTEjI8A2dVU4djh8+oE/5LdEDt90ZpaRTb+YDCpYZaH3NIt0 9KRP9Wuj02WUpVRxfBT4xZj9JSaC8p2nsD2/ysPV0ezCo0wOIqz9SRIOBKi7R6WTCE0u QxYCfwVvFeoyvNeTKuKu7DFGc4sNTFsPZJN7XKbIpDnuCMdsjoH+nojPDVswX7rXRrjC 2bNfUqyGns7nLh+dvP6kPxEpnxkgJQatMUy9/EI0Hf9F1jnD+pY4oJ0STzaEP8usbvZq 1yAA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=2TEI2w/Kq7guFvbl2b7pWBzOaUTRXrGghPpTM5tdJ4g=; b=EomMAA9Zn8hhp2lIDQtR0Pw7V6Bs76ZMf3LYoJq3DfcwUlAKLOmlqS349w1Pw0Mub6 cNDOMGtnwbue2qnG94MQEhmhLRWSR174KqZ+7Sk9KuNu5Hc7dOtsqVcEuKcn1nUzxETB NhcZIC81R24Rs4Jw0wPV0/kN5NdHX//BlkPO2W5NJB0gmKHSG+CIY6rDIbApZKB8eQiL 3Z2zc+zndaPAZe0WPePz73zCDTlW5hagzSaM4rDBmemq4hoKTGr6b3GU/OWPHs0YiNaS 66uXEV8u9W98HMgQjbwNYYT140qBPGB0ZvCRcOuYoeuW9tkkAWq881lKYW++WHhh282U gg/Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H3zW+ddwuA6b5daDJCGSgCCFEanulijTIZYJCHmFijOdoW4ZP47t9eFFoV5SZSkekOFJ5p6RGh6uCjMRQ== X-Received: by 10.237.41.100 with SMTP id s91mr6067760qtd.143.1489622483136; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:01:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.237.44.70 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.237.44.70 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:01:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: To: Andrey Andreev Cc: PHP Internals List , Ryan Pallas , Kalle Sommer Nielsen , =?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Burnichon?= Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c0856d4f4f9aa054acdc2f3 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add __toArray() method to objects that would be called on cast to array From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta) --94eb2c0856d4f4f9aa054acdc2f3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 What changes is the interface of the `(array)` operator. On 16 Mar 2017 12:53 a.m., "Andrey Andreev" wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Marco Pivetta 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. > --94eb2c0856d4f4f9aa054acdc2f3--