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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Typed array properties V2
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

Am 21.01.2020 um 22:21 schrieb Matthew Brown:
> What if we left the array type alone, and instead focussed on "list<Foo>"
> type and "dict<string, Foo>", "dict<int, Bar>" types?
> 
> That would allow a clear break from previous behaviour, and would allow you
> to introduce other changes (e.g. removing string -> int coercion for
> numeric string keys).

Just to make sure I understand you correctly: are you proposing new data 
structures, names list and dict, in addition to array that can bring more 
specific / strict semantics?