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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Scalar Type Hinting
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Stas Malyshev wrote:
> And can we please stop using word "hinting"?
> We can call it type conversion, typecasting, type coercion, etc.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_conversion
>
> But I don't see how there's any hinting involved.

Is this were things have drifted from the original working base? I was under the 
impression that the idea was to give developers a nudge as to what type of 
parameter was required ( so documentation did the job for me ) rather than 
forcing a conversion when the wrong type was supplied?
Which particular problem is being worked on?

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