Scalar Type Casting Magic Methods

[kripper]

Description

When doing $obj + 123, $obj shouldn't be treated by PHP as a string when $obj is a numeric representation.
Adding the magic casting method __toscalar is handy for solving this.

Please release this patch.
See: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/object_cast_to_types

[Girgias]

Surely what you want here is operator overloading rather than a __toScalar magic method?

[kripper]

Surely what you want here is operator overloading rather than a __toScalar magic method?

__toscalar would be prefered to also support the round($obj) + 1 use case.
I don't mind if the magic casting method is either called __toNumber or __toNumeric.