Re: [RFC] Safe Casting Functions

Hi! > I am presenting a new RFC to add a set of three functions to do validated casts for scalar > types: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/safe_cast > > Please read it. The main problem that happened with scalar typing RFC remains here: third set of rules for casting types. Of course, since it's "just" functions and not language constructs, we can have a set of functions for any set of casting rules anybody wants. But I think it's still the same problem here - having three sets of casting rules is not good. Wait, we actually already have FILTER_VALIDATE_INT and FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT, so that would be the fourth set of rules, and the second set of validation rules, despite already having an extension specially dedicated to filtering and validation. I think we should not multiply entities needlessly - if we need some different validation primitives, why not add them to filter, for example? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/