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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:50:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Annoucing PHP 5.4 Alpha 1
From: scott@macvicar.net (Scott MacVicar)


On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Johannes Schl=FCter wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 00:03 +0200, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
>> type hinting
>=20
> For the record: I consider the current implementation as (one of) the
> biggest mistakes in the last ten years.
>=20
> johannes

I'm happy to see a more strict implementation, but I think our numeric =
handling needs changed. We silently fall between them all in PHP. Sure =
we can guarantee array, null, bool, resource, string etc but not the =
numeric types.

I think we should hold off on the Alpha until we're agreed with thats =
happening with that.

- S