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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Typehints (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Annoucing PHP 5.4 Alpha 1)
From: jbondc@openmv.com ("Jonathan Bond-Caron")

On Tue Aug 10 07:42 PM, Josh Davis wrote:
> Derick's point was about consistency. The approach described in his 
> mail is consistent with current syntax and mechanism(s). Current 
> typehints do not apply any kind of conversion, so treating scalar 
> hints the same way is consistent with the current mechanism.
> 

It's only consistent in the function declarations but *completely*
inconsistent with how the rest of the language works.