Re: make casts more strict in PHP 7

Hi! > No, no it would not. PHP’s explicit casts cannot fail, and there is > absolutely no good reason to change this. If people want strict > casting, we can add new functions or operators for that specifically. > But to break explicit casts and make them sometimes fail would cause > innumerable bugs and backwards-compatibility ideas. I agree. If the developer explicitly states they want conversion, it should be conversion. For implicit casts, some tightening may be ok, but for explicit ones I think it would bring much more headaches than it's worth. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/