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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

> A use case would be where scalar type hints are detrimental are:
>
> I implement an API that returns integers for entity ids, like 2,3,4,5,6.
> and my web-frontend handles this fine because it's a scalar. Then, you want
> to convert entity ids to  UUID. This would break your entire web frontend
> application since it's no longer "integer" whereas the concept of $id is
> good enough.

Others are of the opinion that the type of the value is an important
detail that *should* be managed by something other than automatic
conversion.

I'm going to be fairly busy with work for the next few days but I'll
try to remember to come back and give a few good examples I have for
strict values.