Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
| From: | Sebastian Bergmann | Date: | Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:42:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for? | ||
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On 02/04/2015 04:32 PM, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> btw For your exact example
sin((float)$x). this is actually a
> case
> where another scalar type of 'number' which is satisfiable by either a
> float or an int would be useful, but that's definitely a step too far
> before we have any scalar type hints.
We already have a name for that: numeric (is_numeric()).