Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:46:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for? | ||
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Hi Dmitry,
> On 2 Feb 2015, at 20:43, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think we will implement strict semantic for operators.
> It's not going to be PHP anymore....
> $s = (string)$a . (string)$b;
There’s no need either: operators always produce a specific type (or one of a set of types) so it
doesn’t really cause a problem.
Though there are some improvements we could make. It’d be nice if ‘’ + 1 produced a notice,
that’s caught me out several times before.
Thanks.
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Andrea Faulds
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