Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75491 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 36108 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2014 17:09:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jul 2014 17:09:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; 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] ([192.64.116.207:45319] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 46/59-25444-ACE04C35 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:09:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8B98C0075; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:09:27 -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 HZacmlt88eVD; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:09:27 -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 3A29C8C007B; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:09:25 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <20140714170149.GE27743@phcomp.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:09:22 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <08503591-EFC8-48E6-984E-FFC292C5EA5F@ajf.me> <53C3F70A.7010706@gmail.com> <3aa29e080d70c843713e19a952dfbad6@mail.gmail.com> <20140714170149.GE27743@phcomp.co.uk> To: Alain Williams 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 18:01, Alain Williams wrote: > But if you have: >=20 > function foo(int $a) { > ... > $a =3D 3 / 2; > } >=20 > What do you expect $a to contain ? I would suggest integer 1. I=92d expect (and I think most people new to PHP would expect) what 3/2 = would be in normal maths, i.e. the fractional value 0.666=85. Actually, = this makes a good case for return type hinting, as you could ensure = you=92d get an integer result here. (But that is another matter.) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/