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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:16:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Scalar Type Hinting with Cast
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 01:10:20AM +0100, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>
>> On 14 Sep 2014, at 01:07, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > You give an option for float to int casting to truncate.
>>
>> Where?
>
>     Possible Changes
>
>     Float to Int Casting Rules
>
> ...
>
>     This could be relaxed for semi-representable values. So 1.5 could be allowed
>     for an int parameter (casted to 1).

That's one thing I do not like much. If one accepts both int and
float, numeric should be used instead. But allowing float for int and
raises warnings on data losses is just awkward imho.

-- 
Pierre

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