Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)

On 13 Jul 2014, at 14:13, Jocelyn Fournier <jocelyn.fournier@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually displaying a warning in E_STRICT but still doing the implicit cast would not change > the function signature. Sure. What I meant was more that we’re changing expectations based on php.ini/variable/etc., and I’d rather it’s always consistent. > > Indeed :) But I have also performances in mind. Usually (at least in HACK / Zephir), "type > hinting" is used to help the compiler optimize the code. If this type hinting could be useful > to help my code working in a futur PHP->PECL compiler, or help the PHP opcache to do some > optimisations, I'd like to use "type hinting" as much as possible. > > But with the above limitation, I'll not be able to do so. I think this type hinting wouldn’t hinder optimisation. Casting means that it’s still guaranteed that the value you get is of the requested type. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/