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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Optional scalar type hinting
From: tomi@cumulo.fi (Tomi Kaistila)

> If you change data, result changes - surprise! If you set $n2 to 42,
> result would be wrong too, if by right you mean $n2 being 1 and not 42.
> How it has anything to do with static typing?
Ohh gee wiz... Well odds are that you would not want the value to increase by 
zero, when the intention was to increase with anything but zero.

Would type hinting help? Well, it would efficiently assure that the value 
passed into it was a number and thus the resulted would not get screwed 
because we assumed PHP's type juggling would save the day.

Honestly Stanislav, do you even care or read what people write to or is it 
your intension only to knit-pick and and be a thicky?

Here is the short version for you. Yes, we all agree that there are existing 
workarounds to having scalar values typed hinted. Just like we could have 
workarounds for the missing OO features in PHP 4? This does not invalidate 
the need for either feature.

Tomi Kaistila
PHP Developer