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 Content preview:  On 02.01.15 05:36, Levi Morrison wrote: > I don't necessarily
    have any more insight to provide than has already > been done, but I do want
    to chime in and say that I personally favor > strict types as Nikita Popov
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Scalar Type Hints
From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer)

On 02.01.15 05:36, Levi Morrison wrote:
> I don't necessarily have any more insight to provide than has already
> been done, but I do want to chime in and say that I personally favor
> strict types as Nikita Popov has been advocating.

Same from me. I support all arguments so far made by Nikita; they're
well laid out, better than I could have done it.

I think the only real world usefulness is the strict typing; however:

Building on that I also think that the weak proposal using

  function( (int) $a_number)

has it's place and could be very good for moving forward. It would give
both side of the camps their options.

But to move this forward in this line I think a new RFC would need to be
created because it's a different goal.

- Markus