Change output of gettype?

Hi all, PHP 8.5 has deprecated the following type names: - integer - double - boolean - binary But the gettype() function still returns integer, double and boolean instead of int, float and bool. This inconsistency is quite confusing for new developers (and even older ones). I understand that changing the return of gettype might break a lot of existing code, so maybe it's not a good idea (yet). But maybe we could add a parameter to gettype, for example: gettype(mixed $value, bool $strict = false): string If true, then it would return the "new" canonical names. And then in the next version emit a depreciation notice if $strict is not supplied. And then in PHP 9 maybe change the default return of gettype, but still allow to pass $strict = false, so that upgrading the existing code base would just be a matter of doing a regexp replace of gettype(...) to gettype(..., false). Adding a depreciation notice if $strict is not supplied would make things just painful for everyone I think though. It's a small thing but it seems like having the same canonical names everywhere would make things more consistent. Or the cheap solution would be to just add the $strict parameter and update the gettype documentation to say that the types returned by default are not the "new" scalar and passing $strict is needed in order to match what "new" PHP is using. Cheers everyone.