Re: instanceof survives non-object variables, but crashes on non-object constants.

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > We should just add a warning to the first example, it seems like an > oversight that it was left silent I strongly object! We ought to consider using instanceof to support more type-checks than just classes. I think 1 instanceof int really ought to return true for both literals and if they were variables: $lhs = 1; $rhs = 'int'; var_export($lhs instanceof $rhs); The fact we do not have a single, unified way to check if some value on the LHS is of the type on the RHS really bothers me.