Both of the RFC's you reference are for casting TO a scalar, not TO an object 
type.  Your pastbin is for casting FROM a scalar TO an object.

-----Original Message-----
From: Seva Lapsha [mailto:seva.lap...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 6:18 AM
To: Clint Priest
Cc: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting

Sorry, I comprehend neither the cause nor the effect in your argument 
statement. Can you please elaborate?

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Clint Priest <cpri...@zerocue.com> wrote:

> This has already been covered quite a bit, the problem with your 
> suggestion is that the compiler needs to determine the type it is cast 
> to, which is why the __toInt(), __toArray(), etc, so that the language 
> can request the type it needs to cast to.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seva Lapsha [mailto:seva.lap...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:56 PM
> > To: internals@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Custom Casting
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Please be kind to review and comment my proposal for custom casting 
> > in
> PHP (or let me know if a similar proposal was already
> > discussed).
> >
> > http://pastebin.com/sPb0i8U6
> >
> > IMHO, it's more simple and on the other hand more flexible than 
> > proposed
> in:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class_casting_to_scalar
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Seva Lapsha
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I think my RFC confused people on this list due to improper 
> > > descriptions and too much information. Sorry for the confusion. I 
> > > revised the RFC so that most important points can be understood at 
> > > a
> glance.
> > >
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nophptags
> > >
> > > Please read again if you've read already and give comments.
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Yasuo Ohgaki
> > > yohg...@ohgaki.net
> > >
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