Re: [RFC] Deprecate boolean to string coercion

From: Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:52:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate boolean to string coercion
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Hi George P. Banyard, > With Ilija we are proposing a short RFC to deprecate coercion from bool to > string: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-boolean-string-coercion > > As this is the final day for any RFC to be even able to land in PHP 8.1 > the voting is expected to start in two weeks on the 6th of July. > > The implementation is yet to be done but is expected to be rather > straightforward and finished within the week. I'd agree any casts from booleans to strings are usually a bug in the application Something I'd like to see in the rfc: What's the intended behavior (notices) of sprintf('%s', false); (functions internally casting to strings) What about echo true; print(false);, etc. Thanks, Tyson

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