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To: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

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Hi Dmitry,

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:

> could you please write down few use cases, when strict scalar type hints
> are really useful.
>

I'm not opposing to have scalar type hints, but assertion can do better job
for it. I think you have proposed assert() w/o runtime overhead. Is this
included in PHP7? Enable by opcache, perhaps?

Sorry for OT. I'm curious.

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
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