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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

>  Please use the term "type declaration for arguments" (or "type
>  declaration for parameters") instead of "type hints". If it's used
>  then it's not a hint.

Thank you! I was just going to post this. We've made this mistake once,
but we don't have to perpetuate it. It's no "hinting", it's type
declaration, it's coercive typing, it is many things but "hinting" is a
misleading way to describe it.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com