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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
From: kristopherwilson@gmail.com (Kristopher)

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> >
> > On 14 Jul 2014, at 18:01, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > But if you have:
> > >
> > >    function foo(int $a) {
> > >        ...
> > >     $a = 3 / 2;
> > >    }
> > >
> > > What do you expect $a to contain ? I would suggest integer 1.
> >
>
I would have expected 1 - since it appears, from the code, that $a should
> only contain integers.


What about the current type hinting we have, then?

function foo(Bar $a) {
    $a = 3 / 2;
}

Perfectly OK. Why would we treat scalars any different?

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