Re: [RFC] Scalar Type Hints

Hi Alain, > On 2 Jan 2015, at 11:45, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > > There is a 3rd camp: (c) > These are the language implementors, in particular 3rd parties eg HipHop. These > do care if a variable is int 42 or string "42" because there are optimisations > to be made if they know that a value is really an int and not a string cleanly > convertable to an int. Er, optimisations are not at all prevented by having implicit conversions. They still allow you to reason about types within a function, because types are converted. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/