Re: [VOTE][RFC] Safe Casting Functions

> Since some things might have changed since you last read the RFC, I encourage you to read > through it again. If there are any questions which have not yet been covered on the mailing list, > feel free to ask them. - The RFC does not address how this is different from FILTER_VALIDATE_* from ext/filter. I know there was a mention of this on the mailing list, but the RFC should say why a tool that already exists to solve this kind of problem is insufficient, especially when it is enabled by default. - PHP suffers a lot from function bloat and this RFC provides multiple functions that do the same thing but differ only in how they handle errors. A simple validation of "can this be safely cast to an integer without dataloss?" avoid the issue entirely and would be fewer functions. To summarize: I like the idea of having tools that helps us convert between types in a lossless way, but I don't think this proposal is what is best for PHP. -1 for me but I hope to see this revisited.