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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

>  From my point of view, if the type annotations are doing implicit cast
> (with or
> without E_NOTICE/E_STRICT warning), they should behave exactly the same
> than an explicit cast. If it behaves differently, I'll be really difficult
> for a
> developer to guess what will be the PHP behaviour with this new syntax.

Coming to think of it, this is probably the cleanest and most productive
approach.  +1.

Zeev