On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM Joseph Leedy <joseph+...@josephleedy.dev> wrote:
> > As a developer, I would like to have variables of one type cast to another > type automatically so that I do not need to assign the variable to itself. > > > What if we could do this instead? > > ```php > $price = '5.0123'; > ... > (float) $price; > > var_dump($price); // Result: `float: 5.0123` > ``` > > This is valid code now, and does not perform the cast. You need to use a slightly different syntax, maybe `(float)&$price;` that is an error now. -- Alex
