Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75451 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65547 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2014 13:29:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jul 2014 13:29:26 -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 192.64.116.199 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.199 imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.199] ([192.64.116.199:54037] helo=imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id EB/F3-43645-63BD3C35 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:29:26 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A298800ED; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:29:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap11.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap11.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ABG0m4bAWX0D; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:29:23 -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 8E8F88800F3; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:29:22 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:29:21 +0100 Cc: PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <08503591-EFC8-48E6-984E-FFC292C5EA5F@ajf.me> <16D48604-0C0A-4613-91A4-21392E3A2636@ajf.me> To: Alexey Zakhlestin 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 14 Jul 2014, at 14:28, Andrea Faulds wrote: >=20 > On 14 Jul 2014, at 14:12, Alexey Zakhlestin = wrote: >=20 >> I don=92t think that "scalar casts=94 should do any additional = error-catching. they target a very different usecase. >> It shouldn=92t guarantee correctness of the whole program. It should = guarantee that variable types are fixed inside of function. >=20 > That is exactly what is being proposed though. My bad, I meant =93that is not what is being proposed=94. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/