Re: [RFC DISCUSSION] typeof

Hi! > I prepared my first contribution to internals: > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1932 I don't think we need a core function that almost exactly duplicates the working of existing function but with a slight tweak. I do not think it is a good idea to do such things, it only produces more confusion. I mean yes, NULL may be annoying (not to me but I understand how it can be) but introducing new core function to change "NULL" to "null" and similar small tweaks and encourage people (99.99999% of which do not care) to rewrite their code does not seem beneficial to me. The extended mode seems to be a kind of pretty-printing debugging output which probably matches some use case but definitely not all of them. I don't see how these cases are common enough to be part of core. This would be completely fine as a PHP library but I don't see why it needs to be a core function. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@gmail.com