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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC] Deprecate type juggling to and from bool type
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From: sandfox@sandfox.me (Anton Smirnov)

On 02/06/2025 19:11, Gina P. Banyard wrote:
> Hello internals,
> 
> This is the first RFC out of a set of type system related RFCs I want to propose for PHP 8.5.
> It also used the recently enabled Markdown support on the wiki, so there might be a few oddities.
> 
> The RFC proposes to deprecate implicit type coercions to and from the bool type for other scalar types.
> This a "weak" mode change only, as when strict_types are enabled none of these coercions can happen.
> 
> Let me know what you think about it.
> 
> RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-function-bool-type-juggling
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Gina P. Banyard

Literally 15 minutes ago I caught a nasty bug caused by subj (true 
becoming 1 and meaning something else entirely). Well, I love the 
proposition.