Object Type Casting

I suppose your cast is a conversion. Otherwise it is not needed at all
because PHP has no types.

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Von: Raymond Irving [mailto:xwisdom@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 17:40
An: PHP Internals
Betreff: [PHP-DEV] Object Type Casting

Hello,

Are there any plans to add object type casting support in PHP?

For example:
$circle = (Circle) ShapeFactory::createShape('circle');
$circle->radius = 10;
echo $circle->getArea();

It would be great if this feature could be added to 5.5 :)

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Raymond Irving

There are no concrete plans no.

Object casting is typically available to please the static type checker.
This concern does not exist in PHP since types are checked at runtime. So
my first question would be: Why do you need it ?

Other questions include: what would it do for up-casting, down-casting,
and also casting to incompatible objects? How will it handle private
properties?

Best,

Hello,

Are there any plans to add object type casting support in PHP?

For example:
$circle = (Circle) ShapeFactory::createShape('circle');
$circle->radius = 10;
echo $circle->getArea();

It would be great if this feature could be added to 5.5 :)

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Raymond Irving

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Hi!

Are there any plans to add object type casting support in PHP?

For example:
$circle = (Circle) ShapeFactory::createShape('circle');
$circle->radius = 10;
echo $circle->getArea();

What is this supposed to do? I.e. what createShape returns and what
(Circle) operator is doing to it?

It would be great if this feature could be added to 5.5 :)

5.5 is in feature freeze, so it won't happen in any case.

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