On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Mike Willbanks <pen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Internals, > > I had requested a wiki account (mwillbanks) as I would like to propose an > RFC on Object casts to scalar types. This has previously been discussed > prior to scalar type hints and since we have those now coming into PHP 7, I > believe it would be a great time to take a look at this for 7.1 (Discussion > will not be immediate as focus needs to be put into 7.0) > > The last RFC had gone inactive back from 2012: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types and I have talked with > ircmaxell about doing something similar but making it more inline with STH > as well as supporting a generalized __cast. > > The general cruft of it is to have objects have the ability to support: > + __toInt > + __toFloat > + __toBool > + __toArray > + __cast > > Removing the existing having __toScalar as it would no longer make sense in > this context. __cast would be utilized more or less as function((int) > constant_type) where as it may mean PHP_TYPE_* as initial feedback on the > idea showed that it would be the most generalist approach and might be > useful in that context. > > Regards, > > Mike > Hi, I can't find your account request, are you sure you was able to submit it? The form won't be submitted if you fill out the ' To which email address do you have to send an email now?' question wrong. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
