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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What do we need strict scalar type hints for?
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Adding another concept, not changing the existing ones. And really,
> it's just simplifying what is already present via is_<typename>()
> runtime checks, making our lives a little bit easier.

There's a very big difference between allowing to check types (and then
do whatever you wish) and having functions throw fatal errors if types
do not match.

-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com