Re: RE: [VOTE][RFC] Coercive Scalar Type Hints

Zeev, >> You also stated above that false->bool is not supported (I'm guessing > you >> meant float->bool). So users would be able to pass "4.3" to a bool > typehint, >> but not 4.3? This behavior seems very arbitrary and confusing. > > It may be confusing, but only academically so. Again, this approach tries > to work well with real world usage - and reject conversions which are > likely to be erroneous. "4.3" may look like a floating point number but > in the context of conversion to boolean, that doesn't matter much. It's a > string. Doesn't that contradict what you've been saying the whole time about how "13" and 13 and 13.0 are really "the same thing", and as such should be coerced? > function bar(float $x) > $foo = 1; > bar($foo); // will definitely fail in strict mode No, actually it won't fail in strict mode: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5#integers_should_be_accepted_for_strict_float_arguments Anthony