RE: [PHP-DEV] feature proposal: string types (complete with a patch)

> IMO we should not consider this if it impacts performance even 10% (this > is an arbitrary number. One of the strengths is the speed and I > don't want > to lose this. > agreed; php needs not to add any perf hits > 1% without undeniable benefit. > Looks perlish to me, I'd rather see a casting thing like this then: > > echo (url) "http://$host:$port/$path"; > this would be my preference too, given that what we're doing here is essentially an extension of casting.