Fwd: PHP RFC: Scalar type-hinting with cast

Begin forwarded message: > From: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> > Subject: Re: PHP RFC: Scalar type-hinting with cast > Date: 11 August 2014 13:46:05 BST > To: Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> > > > On 11 Aug 2014, at 13:41, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’m a strong supporter of this feature request, so first of all thank you for taking over >> the RFC! >> >> I noticed that there is a use-case that is not present in the RFC and should IMO be >> explicitly documented: the strings of digits with leading zeros. >> >> I think these should “pass” when type-hinted as int: >> “0123” => 123 >> “-0123” => -123 >> >> Note that the conversion should be done in base 10, not 8 (octal) as this is what the >> explicit (int) type-casting does: >> echo 0123; // 83 >> echo (int) “0123”; // 123 >> >> I hope you can add this to the RFC. > > The patch as it stands does support this, and they are base 10. PHP doesn’t consistently deal > with bases the same as it stands, however. I’d like to fix that at some point. > > Also, the RFC is effectively dead at this point. I will retire it once I have a better > replacement. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/