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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting - Request for Discussion
From: m2ys4u@gmail.com (Jack Allnutt)


> *You* do the above because you know that you should; (hopefully you do
> other checks as well). One of the things that we are doing is trying to help the
> naive/lazy programmer who doesn't bother - or thinks that javascript checking is enough :-(
>
> What we want to do is to generate an error/warning message that can tell him
> that something is wrong.
Bad programmers write bad code and will continue to do so irrespective 
of type hinting. Better documentation is the answer to that problem, not 
magic casting, IMHO.