> On Jul 12, 2021, at 1:56 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:01 PM Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net > <mailto:m...@newclarity.net>> wrote: > Additionally in Go a type assertion can return a second value which is > boolean telling if the type assertion succeeded. Not having this would > effectively moot the benefit to a type assertion if you had to wrap with > try{}catch{} in case it failed. > > Not necessarily: > > if ($obj instanceof MyClass) { > // We know its type here > } else { > // Try something else > }
Well there you go. It seems you have just illustrated why in reality we really do not need type casting/assertions in PHP given its current features, because we already have what we need. -Mike
