Bug #73468 [Com]: PHP 7.1: PHP Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73468&edit=1 ID: 73468 Comment by: develway at gmail dot com Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: PHP 7.1: PHP Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 7.1.0RC5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Notice disappear, but code is ugly :) echo (float)$e = (float)$d * (float)$b . BR; I agree that now to avoid Notice we must to typecast expected result, what PHP did for more than a decade itself!!! Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-09-10 19:59:42] develway at gmail dot com I wanted to say, that I don't get what solution must be ... const BR = "<br>"; $a = 1; $b = 2.5; $c = 0xFF; echo $d = $b + $c . BR; echo $e = $d * $b . BR; In the last line the result expected to be float, why appears this Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-09-10 19:41:21] develway at gmail dot com I don't get the point about solution? for example for this simple code in the last line I get the same Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered const BR = "<br>"; $a = 1; $b = 2.5; $c = 0xFF; echo $d = $b + $c . BR; echo $e = $d * $b . BR; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-11-06 21:42:55] spam2 at rhsoft dot net and BTW - fine that you mention the codeline - what about mention the VARIABLE which the warning is raising? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-11-06 19:53:46] spam2 at rhsoft dot net 4077 KB - in other words we have now to typecast everything in doubt which PHP did for more than a decade itself? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-11-06 19:49:03] spam2 at rhsoft dot net (floatval($dbsize)*1024) ((float)$dbsize*1024)) are workarounds - but sicne when is PHP a strong typed language? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73468 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73468&edit=1