On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Fleshgrinder <p...@fleshgrinder.com> wrote: > On 3/11/2017 2:53 PM, Andrey Andreev wrote: >> I don't disagree with that in general, but strictly rejecting strings >> and other non-integer values would alleviate the problem for a >> majority of cases; i.e. would solve the 90% problem. >> >> What I strongly disagree on is that I should be happy with coercion, >> and the almost religious resistance against (non-overridable) strict >> scalar typing. >> > > From whom? Where are you getting this from? We are all in favor of > adding more types to the runtime to solve more use cases. We are all > just concluding that a stringable type should not be constrained to > string + object::__toString only. All your examples just help to make it > more clear that there is no benefit in doing anything other than that. >
Oh, FFS! I stopped talking about __toString() 10 emails ago, and probably the 3 of us here are all thinking about different things now. I'm out. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
