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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allowing NULL for some internal functions
From: marandall@php.net (Mark Randall)
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On 28/02/2022 01:46, Craig Francis wrote:
> Personally I think `strict_types=1` is fine for my code, but I would never
> want to force that style on everyone, because doing so would be fairly
> hostile for a language that's popular and well known for being easy to
> use/learn.

Magically coercing things and hiding things under the hood is useful for 
the first 10 minutes of learning.

After that it just becomes a hindrance difficult because you have to 
know all of the secret rules about type juggling.