Re: Renaming "strict types" to "scalar type coercion"

> On Jun 18, 2024, at 5:04 PM, David Gebler <davidgebler@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2024, 17:40 Robert Landers, <landers.robert@gmail.com > <mailto:landers.robert@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello internals, > > Many, many people start their files fairly religiously: > > <?php declare(strict_types=1); > > and I say "religiously" because from talking to people in real life, > reddit, workplaces, etc, very few php programmers actually know what > this does but do it nonetheless. > > I think there's almost certainly a degree of truth, not just in PHP but programming in > general, in the idea that there are many people who will blindly follow a convention for no better > reason they once heard someone they considered more senior than themselves say the words "best > practice" There is a notable term for that: "Cargo Cult Programming": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming> #fwiw -Mike