Fleshgrinder wrote:
On 3/8/2017 7:36 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
Hi,
Andrey Andreev wrote:
The question is rather "is this value a string?", only with the added
assumption that __toString() objects are treated as "string objects"
and thus fulfill the condition (another reason why I went for an
is_string() parameter).
This is a faulty assumption. The presence of __toString() doesn't mean
the object is a string, or intended to be used like one.
What is it then in your book?
It means the object can be converted to a string. But such a conversion
may entail a loss of information and not be equivalent to the object
itself. It might be a “human-readable” form, for instance.
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Andrea Faulds
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