Re: [RFC] Safe Casting Functions

On 22.10.2014 10:37, Bob Weinand wrote: > I know we have that already discussed a lot now, but I’d like to expose my points on the > return value here: > > I imagine code like (supposing that we ever will have scalar typehints): > > function acceptsInt (int $i = null) { > if ($i === null) { > $i = 2 /* default value */; > } > /* do something with $i */ > } NULL isn't a pointer for a default value - it's simply a type with no value - no more - no less. From your example: why do you accept NULL if you need a integer default value? function acceptsInt (int $i = 2) { ... Marc