Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49957&edit=1
ID: 49957 Comment by: bob_the_builder at gmail dot com Reported by: greg at imagiclab dot com Summary: Need magic method for every data type Status: Bogus Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Feature/Change Request Operating System: unix PHP Version: 5.3.0 Block user comment: N New Comment: @johannes the problems you are mentioning are not new to OO languages. The same problem might arise in C++ for example when 2 valid implicit cast exist. This would simply raise an error. The programmer has to ability to specify casts as explicit, so they will be invoked only if it is explicity requested. Therefore he can only provide a single impicit cast to prevent such an error. The same scheme could be applied in php. If more than one implicit cast is found an E_USER error could be raised. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-23 15:39:34] greg at imagiclab dot com Ok i see you point but other are not as complex like __toResource would be create for connect on demand db classes you can also only have the magic methods for float and int called if you are specifically cast like (int)$Object ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-23 10:24:21] johan...@php.net This was discussed and leads to too many unclear situations. Like should $a + $b call toFloat or toInt or what? What about $a < $b? Maybe a string comparison. In the end implementing this gives more trouble than where it helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-22 15:23:46] greg at imagiclab dot com Description: ------------ Need magic method for every data type. Why have a incomplete magic method list. Why not a __toInt and __toResource. We are trying to change a legacy system to connect to mysql on demand and would love a __toResource magic method. Also anyone who uses class based enums would like a __toInt to convert the enum to is int valyue and to use __toSting to convert the enum to its label. Reproduce code: --------------- --- >From manual page: language.oop5.magic --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49957&edit=1
