Hi!
> Explicit conversion is trivial, just call whatever method you like.
> Sure, you can't write (int)$obj, but $obj->toInt() is just as
> expressive.
Exactly the same applies to __toString and whole ArrayAccess, yet we
still have them. Avoiding boilerplate code helps. Especially if
boilterplate code would look like:
if(is_object($foo)) {
$foo_key = $foo->toInt();
} else {
$foo_key = $foo;
}
$a[$foo] = 1;
Doing it each time is annoying.
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