(off topic) Array to string conversion (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar Type Hints v0.4)

Le Thu Feb 19 2015 at 00:38:25, François Laupretre <francois@php.net> a écrit : > This is definitely not the same case as generating a notice on array to > string (and why did you generate a notice instead of E_DEPRECATE, we would > be rid of this crap now). > I haven't decided that without discussing [1] it. E_DEPRECATED is meant for something that may/will not work in the future and the plan was not to stop converting arrays as the string "Array" when it happens. Moreover, no other "bad" conversion used E_DEPRECATED and it would have been inconsistent IMO. Note that there is room for improvements considering that "weird" conversions are using one of E_NOTICE, E_WARNING, E_ERROR or E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR depending on the case. Feel free to propose something in this regard, I'm all for consistencies, provided that it gives a sufficient amount of BC. Regards, Patrick [1] http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=130709981705863