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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

On 02/04/2015 04:32 PM, Dan Ackroyd wrote:
> btw For your exact example `sin((float)$x).` this is actually a case
> where another scalar type of 'number' which is satisfiable by either a
> float or an int would be useful, but that's definitely a step too far
> before we have any scalar type hints.

 We already have a name for that: numeric (is_numeric()).