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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate Fuzzy Type Casts and Allow Stringable
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate Fuzzy Type Casts and Allow Stringable
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:21:03 +0000
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From: jdafoe@segpay.com (Jeff Dafoe)

> I'm afraid that deprecating and eventually erroring these casts will brea=
k a lot of hard to trace legacy code, where a cast "solved" most problems, =
or at least did not crash things. I'm talking about values that come from a=
utomated import systems, go through dozens of layers of code that haven't b=
een touched since php 5.2 or earlier, and eventually=20
> end up in a part where we do a cast. It was also not unthinkable that the=
se casts were used _because_ it truncated the invalid parts, and while we c=
ould replace this with a preg_match to extract the number, I don't particul=
arly feel like going through nearly 5k int casts in this codebase and figur=
e out if it should change or not.=A0

I share this exact same concern for the same reasons, particularly regardin=
g the int cast.

-Jeff