Re: Reviving scalar type hints

On 17/02/15 14:49, Andrey Andreev wrote: >> I agree. It's more of a question of eliminating potentially dangerous >> > conversions than just being lossless. >> > > Agreed as well. However, while bool -> int conversion one of the > reasons why many people want strict type-hints, it also often makes > sense and is quite widespread. There's no silver bullet for that > problem. Returning 'not-zero/empty' as true and 'zero' as false is one of the natural things to use in PHP and I don't think any other language has that flexibility? It is also why some of the other 'little changes' such as hard coded IS_TRUE and IS_FALSE are actually somewhat alien! Certainly is does not play well with my methods of working, but then I prefer a function to return a result rather than crash out with an exception ... Although -ve values are even more useful than a simple 'zero' return and that may replace a string return. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk