On 2024-03-21 16:02, Robert Landers wrote:
$a as int|float
would be an int, float, or thrown exception.
$a as int|float|null
would be an int, float, or null.
Just a suggestion here which might be more palatable to Rowan's wish for
consistency (which I can totally relate to):
We perhaps could make sure that as does not throw if used with `??`, or
that `??` catches the type error and returns the right-hand expression
instead:
So to do a nullable typecast you would do:
$a as int|float ?? null
To me this reads way more intuitive what will happen, and achieves the
same in an also very concise way.
The only catch I see is that it would also swallow errors about $a not
being defined at all.
Best,
Jordi
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Jordi Boggiano
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