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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> could you please write down few use cases, when strict scalar type hints
> are really useful.

I think there is one big misunderstanding in Andrea's RFC.

Strictness is local only. Or to say it in a better way, only the
maintainers of a given library will bother with it. Users of this
library do not, there will be no change there from what we had in the
1st rfc. Or they can if they want.

Keeping that in mind, the declare statement, as ugly as it may look,
could be actually a killer to finally get what both camps want but
never (and never will) manage to agree.

-- 
Pierre

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