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

On 15 Jul 2014, at 14:18, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > you can't optionally introduce strict typing to php, as the two of them > can't co-exists. > nobody forces you to not use a language with strict typing if you want > that, but I don't think that it would worth changing the php type system at > this point. It’s also worth noting that if you do want strict typing in PHP, you now have an alternative: Hack. Hack even allows you to mix strictly-typed code with non-strictly-typed code if you want. But PHP is not going to go in that direction. This RFC offer rather strict validation of input to a function, but it does not offer strict *typing*, as strings and floats, where interchangeable, are accepted. > as I mentioned above, nobody argues that input validation (and escaping > output in a context sensitive manner) is a must. Isn’t a must, surely? (I assume that was a typo) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/