Hi,
I guess it would work like an inline type-hint.
Something along the lines of:
$circle = ShapeFactory::createShape('circle');
if (!$circle instanceof Circle)
{
throw …;
}
I would like something like this, since it saves quite some code.
Cheers
Jannik
Am Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 um 19:19 schrieb Stas Malyshev:
> Hi!
>
> > Are there any plans to add object type casting support in PHP?
> >
> > For example:
> > $circle = (Circle) ShapeFactory::createShape('circle');
> > $circle->radius = 10;
> > echo $circle->getArea();
> >
>
>
> What is this supposed to do? I.e. what createShape returns and what
> (Circle) operator is doing to it?
>
> > It would be great if this feature could be added to 5.5 :)
>
> 5.5 is in feature freeze, so it won't happen in any case.
>
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