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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:23:35 -0500
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To: Craig Francis <craig@craigfrancis.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] is_literal()
From: jakob@givoni.dk (Jakob Givoni)

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 3:26 PM Craig Francis <craig@craigfrancis.co.uk> wrote:
>
> As to the name, it's to work alongside functions such as
> is_int(), is_string(), etc - is that a good enough reason?

I think it could cause confusion since int and string are value types,
- literal is not a type as such, it merely describes the way the value
was created.

> I'm under the impression that PHP already defines these as literals

Does anyone know if that is correct? Does PHP remember how the string
variable / constant was created?