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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Zeev Suraski wrote (on 14/07/2014):
> I do believe that the vast majority of people would want '32 ' and "42\n"
> to silently convert to 32/42, and will generally not care much about
> '32abc' converting to 32 either for the sake of consistency.

And passing 'hello' to a function type hinted as int? Will people really 
expect that to become a 0, with a mild warning they may not even have 
enabled?