Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:01:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) | ||
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On 13 Jul 2014, at 15:59, Jocelyn Fournier <jocelyn.fournier@gmail.com> wrote:
> From my point of view, if the type annotations are doing implicit cast (with or without
> E_NOTICE/E_STRICT warning), they should behave exactly the same than an explicit cast. If it behaves
> differently, I'll be really difficult for a developer to guess what will be the PHP behaviour
> with this new syntax.
Well, they do. The results of implicit scalar type hint casts are, so far as I know, the same as
explicit casts, but some cases lead to errors which don’t in an explicit casts.
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Andrea Faulds
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