Arr::of() & Arrayable instance

[amaelftah]

since we have Stringeable and we can do

Str::of('hello')

I thought it would be convenient to have

 Arr::of($array) 
 
 //so instead of 
 Arr::first($names, fn($name) => $name == 'ahmed');
 
 //it will be
 Arr::of($names)->first(fn ($name) => $name === 'ahmed');

the motivation behind this is I tried to add arr() helper method same as str() but couldn't do it cause we don't have Arrayable class like Stringable

[ralphjsmit]

Can’t you just use a collection for that?

collect($names)->first(fn ($name) => $name === ‘ahmed’);

collect($names)->firstWhere(‘name’, ‘ahmed’);

[amaelftah]

yup collection will do it ... am just giving an example of $names array ... as I wanted to showcase something simple with this idea

[ralphjsmit]

I know, just wanted to say that we already have an 'Arrayable', but that it's called a collection. I also thought about this concept myself, but then I realized that Collection is in fact purely an arrayable.

[amaelftah]

aha got your point 👍

[shaedrich]

That would only make sense if Collection was more specific—a bit like the Eloquent collections are an 'array' of objects, ideally from the same class.

Might be related to #48181