Bug #75507 [NEW]: Cast in function

From: ciloe at hotmail dot fr Operating system: PHP version: 7.1.11 Package: PHP Language Specification Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Cast in function Description: ------------ Hi, when you want to set an hard pypage in a function to test if you have a string/integer/float The result of var_dump will be float(123) and not a typage error !!! Test script: --------------- function test (float $element) { var_dump($element); } test('123'); die; Expected result: ---------------- Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to test() must be an instance of float, instance of string given Actual result: -------------- float(123) -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75507&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75507&r=mysqlcfg