Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75410 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 53379 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2014 15:02:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jul 2014 15:02:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:60458] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D9/17-16748-F6F92C35 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:02:07 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB268C0075; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:02:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id YsDOAs4DilG4; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54A338C007D; Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <53C29EE4.3090808@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:01:59 +0100 Cc: Zeev Suraski , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <8941DFEF-0689-4415-9746-F20AEACDDCE9@ajf.me> References: <08503591-EFC8-48E6-984E-FFC292C5EA5F@ajf.me> <027E65EF-C4FC-474C-92BB-D99EFADDEEED@ajf.me> <53C29EE4.3090808@gmail.com> To: Jocelyn Fournier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening) From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 13 Jul 2014, at 15:59, Jocelyn Fournier = wrote: > =46rom 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. Well, they do. The results of implicit scalar type hint casts are, so = far as I know, the same as explicit casts, but some cases lead to errors = which don=92t in an explicit casts. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/