Re: Type hinting

Hi, if it comes to auto-converting (that's different from existing type-juggling): wouldn't it be nice, to change type-juggling as well? I know about BC breaks here, thus it would need till PHP 7 or so to become the default behavior. But I think, BC breaks mainly occur in the cases where type-juggling is more hiding programming errors than helping the user - that is: where the developer should really care about checking and/or casting. As an advantage, hints and type-juggling would at least behave consistent, reducing complexity for the users (and perhaps internally for you as core developers as well). Am Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010 07:42:32 schrieb Zeev Suraski: > Can anybody share with us *common* cases where strict typing would be > necessary, and the proposed auto-converting type hints won't do? If you use CouchDB as backend (where data is stored as JSON), there is a difference if you store "42" , 42, or 42.0. IIRC I read on the CouchDB mailing list that this can influence view sorting. (As I strictly care about types in my application, I didn't had problems yet.) Thomas