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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing
From: phpwnd@gmail.com (Josh Davis)

2010/8/12 Johannes Schl=FCter <johannes@php.net>:
> Yes, my blog posting reflects my opinion and therefore is manipulative

Indeed. Depending where you'll look, you'll find big communities that
have no clue about or no need for type hinting/checking/casting, some
communities where "strict" typing is heresy, others where "weak"
typing is seen as too lax, etc... All I've read on that topic was from
small communities with targeted audiences, which produce some very
polarized opinions.

What would be interesting to see is what people think of Derick's
latest proposal allowing both the strict typechecking and the more
sensible "weak typing" (which I call smartcasting because you know, it
does typecast stuff and prefixing it with "smart" make it sound better
IMO.) It would weed out most of the knee-jerk reactions and focus on
whether it solves problems or overly complicates things or makes them
confusing.