On 16 December 2014 18:50:06 GMT, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> Explicit conversion is trivial, just call whatever method you like.
>> Sure, you can't write (int)$obj, but $obj->toInt() is just as
>> expressive.
>
>Exactly the same applies to __toString and whole ArrayAccess, yet we
>still have them. Avoiding boilerplate code helps. Especially if
>boilterplate code would look like:
>
>if(is_object($foo)) {
> $foo_key = $foo->toInt();
>} else {
> $foo_key = $foo;
>}
>$a[$foo] = 1;
>
>Doing it each time is annoying.
I was just confused by your statement that "explicit conversion is inacessible
from userspace". But yeah, I guess with string keys you can just write
$a[(string)$foo] and assume/hope it will do something meaningful whatever the
type of $foo.
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