On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:27 PM Ben Ramsey <b...@benramsey.com> wrote:
> Taking this to a new thread so I don’t derail the `short_var_export()` > thread. > > Dik, I like this addition, but I think the name “repr” might be confusing > to PHP developers who aren’t familiar with Python idioms. PHP function > names and coding standards within the community tend to lean more toward > verbosity than terseness, when it comes to naming things. > > Perhaps we should follow the lead of `__toString()` and use > `__toRepresentation()`? Maybe also introduce a `Representable` interface, > like `Stringable`? https://wiki.php.net/rfc/stringable > Ooof, can we just avoid more magic methods overall? :| Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/
