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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hinting With Casts (re-opening)
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> On 25 =D7=91=D7=99=D7=95=D7=9C 2014, at 22:41, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@s=
ugarcrm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> The point of this RFC is to strike a compromise that is generally
>> useful rather than helping one specific use case (strict hints) or
>> another (casts).
>
> What you call "compromise" is the inconsistency - it's not strict
> typing, it's not weak typing, it's half that and half this without any
> apparent principle uniting them but arbitrarily constructed table, to
> which anybody using it would have to constantly refer to figure out why
> their code is breaking.

Well put.

Zeev