Bug #76964 [NEW]: Return type-hint actually cast types

From: itay dot moav at email dot sitel dot org Operating system: centos7 PHP version: 7.2.10 Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Return type-hint actually cast types Description: ------------ The following code will return 1 I would expect it to fail class A{ static public function r():bool{ return 'ww'; } } Test script: --------------- class A{ static public function r():bool{ return 'ww'; } } var_dump(A::r()); Expected result: ---------------- I expect this call to fail with proper error message Actual result: -------------- casts the return value to 1 (int) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76964&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76964&r=mysqlcfg